Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs

Abstract

determine what exactly it has to do with archives: it does not focus on them in either the professional or the academic sense.The rest of the essay is a cacophony of niche terminology and phrases (e.g., "mediatic," "hybrid meta-space," and "hyperproletariat") that serve to paper over the authors' logical leaps in their self-congratulatory encouragement of academic piracy. It is ironic that they do not consider their own privilege and positionalities in publishing in an open access monograph.While Mars and Medak's follow-up is disappointing, the first two chapters of Archives are a worthy endeavor; especially for archivists and readers who have not felt themselves and their work represented in discussions about "the archive." This review cannot evaluate Archives within the In Search of Media series, but it seems to me that Mars and Medak's chapter may have found a better home in a volume about scholarly communication or copyright. Interested readers may find the entire text available for free in open access format on meson press's website.