Archive Fever: Writing and thinking with oceans, memory, and attention.

Google's mass digitization project, that is the Google Book Search Project , is often severely criticized by academics and librarians. The critiques typically run along the lines that it's a corporate initiative to make money and that the once-included librarian community is now on the outside looking in. I can see this critique. Sadly, it's standard critique from the left (of which I am a part) but it is the privileged left that make this critique. The progressives that want to (or are forced to) grapple and harness threads of opportunity in Google's hegemonic machinations have a different take. Last Wednesday, Howard University's School of Law hosted a forum that showcased some of these useful progressive perspectives on the Google Book Project. My point is that Google's hegemony isn't strictly deterministic, nor is it monolithic. Ala Michel de Certeau , there are tactics to Google's strategies. Or, to invoke other revolutionary refrains, b...