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The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. The filing cabinet emerges here as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.
How we store information reflects the aspirations we have about what to remember. Taking this idea to heart, Craig Robertson’s essential history of the filing cabinet is the definitive account of verticality and efficiency as guiding principles for corporate capitalis
