Contents

pp v-vi

Introduction: Collecting in the Digital Age

pp 1-37

1 - Collecting: Defining the Subject

pp 38-54

Part I - Spaces of Collecting

pp 55-56

2 - Collector as Curator: Collecting in the Post-Internet Age

pp 57-66

3 - Should Libraries Still Be Charged with Collecting in a Digital Environment?

pp 67-78

4 - Museums and Collecting as/and Media in the Digital Age

pp 79-92

Part II - Recollection

pp 93-94

5 - Quality Storage: Collecting as a Technique of Reading

pp 95-105

6 - Phenomenology of Memory in an Age of Big Data

pp 106-119

7 - Collecting the Cultural Memory of Palmyra

pp 120-131

8 - Conservation in the Digital Age

pp 132-150

Part III - Virtuality

pp 151-152

9 - Music and the Limits of Collectibility

pp 153-164

10 - Cat Art and Climate Change: Collecting in the Data Anthropocene

pp 165-178

Part IV - Economics

pp 179-180

11 - Doomed to Collect: Dataveillance as Inner Logic of the Internet

pp 181-199

12 - Data Collection in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

pp 200-220

Notes on the Contributors

pp 221-224

Index

pp 225-235