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future five-foot shelf,” a writer for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Time</i> magazine observed in 1944 of an emerging information-storage technology called the microcard, “may be no bulkier than a pack of playing cards.” From aviary communication experiments
during the Franco Prussian war to the Belgian knowledge-proscenium, the Mundaneum, to FDR's wartime archives of U.S. patrimonial documentation, the microform (of which the microcard was an outgrowth) was a burgeoning technology that formed the leading edge
of hopes to contain and manage an amount of information judged to be potentially “total.” Originating in mid-nineteenth century microphotographs, microform technology spread episodically. By the early to mid-twentieth century, archiving the “total human record”
became the goal a range of mid-century-modern social scientists shared and, in pursuing it, they targeted ever-more elusive elements of the human experience. Meanwhile, a visionary librarian from Connecticut, Fremont Rider, invented the particular form of
the microcard, on which was stored beginning in 1956, among other things, a project archiving dreams and the elements of the subjective life. What sort of theory of technology can make sense of the microcard? What are the politics of this failed information
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<div><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Biograph</b><b style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">y</font></b><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">:</font><font class="Apple-style-span"> </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><i style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">Rebecca
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current work, “Database of Dreams: Social Science's Forgotten Archive of How to Be Human, 1942-1965,” examines attempts to map the subjective parts of the human psyche via once-futuristic data-storage techniques. She teaches courses on brainwashing and the
history of coercive interrogation, as well as the history of the social sciences more broadly. Her first book,
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