No Time To Wait - S04E30 - Jina Chang - Articulating Obsolescence in a Broken World Way
Channel: MediaArea
Date: 2020-01-25

Jina Chang presents "Articulating obsolescence in a broken world way"

This presentation takes a cue from Steven J. Jackson’s essay “Rethinking Repair” (2014) that advocated the possibility of a new epistemology of new media and information technology based on “broken world thinking” - thinking that focuses on breakdown, maintenance, and repair, rather than growth, innovation, and novelty - to have a fresh look at phenomena and problems of technological obsolescence from a conservator’s - a fixer or maintainer - perspective. Instead of embarking on innovative approaches or calls to remedy or overcome the problems of technological obsolescence, this presentation thus highlights the narratives of how obsolescence is perceived, understood, discussed, and dealt through daily activities and reasoning of conservators and within heritage institutions and preservation communities. Offered as a looking glass or a prism to reflect on and refract through, these broken world narratives seek to inspire a new way to articulate obsolescence in preservation studies.

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