This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

The Secret Life of Passwords

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Here is a very interesting article about our identification and attachment to passwords. I found this a very interesting article because the digital age we live in. Many of us often have personal attachment to the passwords we use, and we are even further connected to these phrases or pins because they give us access to the things which allow us to function in this technology-age world.

Isabelle Hay
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