book
Sorting Things Out: Classification and
Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Why this matters here
Bowker and Star show how classification infrastructures make some traces easy to keep and others easy to ignore. Living in Sediment uses the reversed economics of memory—cheap storage, abundant linkage—to ask what accumulates once forgetting is no longer the default.
