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...This introductory chapter demonstrates how the “graphic artifacts”—the material forms of documentation and communication gathered in this study—convey significance in encounters with individual users and form associations through semiosis. However, graphic artifacts are simultaneously constituted...

...In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper...

... performance, regardless of whether it is understood as a sounding entity or as a commercial or physical object. The chapter also studies how useful the conventional notion of recording as documentation is, and considers the possible function of recording as performing the performance. Cook Nicholas Johnson...

... and recording loss in music. The chapter considers in particular modes of documentation and preservation as responses to loss, especially in forms of acoustic ecology and field recording; as well as forms of musical ruins. It also considers works of public and private commemoration, in musical responses to both...