Maybe that's all I do.
The past few months of Boidem columns seem to be focusing and refocusing on a
limited number of topics - photographs, memory, categorization, the ways in which
digital storage perhaps redefines the parameters of experience and reflection.
Perhaps this is little more than a recycling of already overused material (and
I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I feel that I even repeat myself about
repeating myself). On the other hand, recycling may well be precisely what's called
for. Koheleth may well have been right. But even when there's nothing new, the
ever-changing ways the sun reflects on the old - as the hours advance, as our
angle changes, when clouds obscure our view, or after a rain when that view takes
on a particular brilliance - continue to offer us different understandings. Digitality
allows us to continually reorganize the same components in new ways, and in doing
so, to recognize different, unexpected, relationships, to see more clearly what
was already before our eyes.
Go to: Among many other things, or
Go to: To hold in our hands.