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Indexing is political
One of my favorite publications is Lapham’s Quarterly, “a magazine of history and ideas,” created by Lewis H. Lapham, formerly editor of Harper’s Magazine. The magazine’s blog, Lapham’s Quarterly: Roundtable has a fun article on back-of-book indexing.
Donovan quickly outlines the history of indexing books. Then she makes this parallel to search engines and the internet and how they affect how we view information:
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