doing his job by saying the things he said & doing "documentary editing." Please, I've given talks about this, yes, there are multiple possibilities w/ scholarly editing, but at this point especially when we are grounding it in digital, we are at the archival turn in editing. 2/
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Being a "documentary editor" which by the way probably not the most current and theoretical advanced discussion in critical scholarly editing & archive circles (not to mention, NEH won't give you money w/out accessibility) is not a shield. 3/
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Let me point to the fact that as someone who does "documentary editing" but also multiple kinds of scholarly editing & thinks about the archive as a whole (rather than individual material units b/c that whole digital thing), what does his "documentary editing" have to do w/ 4/
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his racist, settler colonial terrible? You are imagining that this has no theoretical turns nor methodology. Did I like skip the last decade or so convo in book history and scholarly editing? And I do scholarly editing (w/ NEH funds) on a MEDIEVAL archive. 5/
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and I can write about scholarly editing in relation to intersectional feminist theory:https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-4e08b137-aec5-49a4-83c0-38258425f145/section/1d687579-21ed-4f2e-b926-1328866cde89 …
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And like literally, did we skip Archive Stories: https://www.amazon.com/Archive-Stories-Fictions-Writing-History/dp/082233688X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=archive+stories&qid=1595126797&sr=8-1 …
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Or
@jmjafrx excellent article "Markup Bodies" https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/36/4%20(137)/57/137032/Markup-BodiesBlack-Life-Studies-and-Slavery-Death …Show this thread -
The amazing work in the Critical Archive issue: https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/50 …
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I taught this 2 weeks after it came out in my Literary Mediascapes class (yes, I do a long book history class folks Parchment to Arduino)
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I am delayed (oh COVID), but I am writing an entire thing about Bella Da Costa Greene's manuscript collection & Whiteness and Property & how radical cataloging may show various forms of Black woman's resistance to the world of 20th c. rare book libraries & archives.
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So no, I really don't understand why someone being a "documentary editor" is somehow the reason why he is a settler colonial racist scholar. Please do not use the, "book history" "Documentary Editor" excuse. Please, Editing is not NEUTRAL & never has been.
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As a medievalist, you know how many scribes in the premodern archive were interventionist, racist, sexist, ableist, terrible af. MANY. Am I going to go around & say, Chaucer is not a racist, rapist, antisemitic tool of white supremacist empire. No. (said it multiple times).
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So why is being a "documentary editor" of Jackson's papers somehow the reason why Feller is what he is. I would really suggest people reexamine this very several decades behind scholarly on scholarly editing. Do not use this as the shield for his terrible. It is not.
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Though book history and scholarly editing folks, you all need to figure out why this is even being used as a shield and where your antiracist, decolonial, Black feminist, queer, trans, and disability conversations are happening.
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