This website is set up because the web-host for a much earlier site, Emotional Education, decided they would no longer offer the space. Now retired, I have other sites, blogs, so I transferred the content of Emotional Education here though some content may be out-dated even if the thinking is not out-of-date. Anyone can also look at my serious but disorganized thoughts blog on Transitional Space, The In-between of Identity Culture and Community or my everyday diary blog on My World Your World One World.
However, I found myself asking:
How does the web do its own History?
When I studied History of Science, and I expect this is true for all researchers, one of the joys was the actual documents, papers, books, even some artifacts. Thank you Royal Institution, London for my time there and for how you now put pictures of so much on the screen. I loved the journey to the building, the being “allowed in to the archive” and so much more. It is above all not just ‘paper’ I remember, what I could hold, but also a feeling of how I fitted into the mindset of the Michael Faraday’s world, through the visual style of the pages. Whether copperplate or cramped handwriting, whether printed in a tiny font and with weird woodcut illustrations, somehow the impact of the real stuff helped me intuit an understanding of how and where and when, beyond content or words.
Question: Can website history ever be retrieved?
it is totally crazy how little attention we pay to this wonderful creation
Contact is very welcome about the history question, or about emotional education.
Look at the reproduced, pages, the new part of this site and links, or go out and have a good day.