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		4 The Licit and Illicit Nature of Mass Digitization	
		Introduction: Lurking in the Shadows	
		Lib.ru	
		Monoskop	
		UbuWeb	
		The Infrapolitics of Shadow Libraries	

TOC

Acknowledgments	
-	I Framing Mass Digitization	
-		1 Understanding Mass Digitization	
		Introduction	
		Framing, Mapping, and Diagnosing Mass Digitization	
		Setting the Stage: Assembling the Motley Crew of Mass Digitization	
		Interrogating Mass Digitization	
		Assembling Mass Digitization	
		Politics in Mass Digitization: Infrastructure and Infrapolitics	
		Power in Mass Digitization	
-	II Mapping Mass Digitization	
-		2 The Trials, Tribulations, and Transformations of Google Books	
		Introduction	
		The New Librarians	
		The Scaling Techniques of Mass Digitization	
		Infrastructural Transformations	
		The Infrapolitics of Contract	
		The Politics of Google Books	
-		3 Sovereign Soul Searching: The Politics of Europeana	
		Introduction	
		A European Response	
		The Infrastructural Reality of Late-Sovereignty	
		Harmonizing Europe: From Canon to Copyright	
		The Infrapolitics of Interoperability	
		The “Work” in Networking	
		Collecting Europe	
-		4 The Licit and Illicit Nature of Mass Digitization	
		Introduction: Lurking in the Shadows	
		Lib.ru	
		Monoskop	
		UbuWeb	
		The Infrapolitics of Shadow Libraries	
-	III Diagnosing Mass Digitization	
-		5 Lost in Mass Digitization	
		The Desire and Despair of Large-Scale Collections	
		Too Much—Never Enough	
		The Ambivalent Flâneur	
		Labyrinthine Imaginaries: Infrastructural Perspectives of Power and Knowledge Production	
		The Architecture of Serendipitous Platforms	
		The Infrapolitics of Platform Power	
	6 Concluding Remarks	
-	Notes	

References	
Index	

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A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day, creating new central nexuses of knowledge. How does this affect us politically and culturally? In this book, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup approaches mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon, offering a new understanding of a defining concept of our time. Arguing that digitization has become a global cultural political project, Thylstrup draws on case studies of different forms of mass digitization—including Google Books, Europeana, and the shadow libraries Monoskop, lib.ru, and Ubuweb—to suggest a different approach to the study of digital cultural memory archives. She constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding mass digitization that focuses on notions of assemblage, infrastructure, and infrapolitics. Mass digitization does not consist merely of neutral technical processes, Thylstrup argues, but of distinct subpolitical processes that give rise to new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting with the artifacts they contain. With this book, she offers important and timely guidance on how mass digitization alters the politics of cultural memory to impact our relationship with the past and with one another.