[Commlist] New monograph, The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation in a More-Than-Human World

It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of my latest 
monograph, /The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation in a 
More-Than-Human World/

/The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation /critiques digital 
cultural heritage concepts and their application to data, developing new 
theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human museology for a 
contemporary and future world.

Presenting a diverse range of case examples from around the globe, 
Cameron offers a critical and philosophical reflection on the ways in 
which digital cultural heritage is currently framed as societal data 
worth passing on to future generations in two distinct forms: digitally 
born and digitizations. Demonstrating that most perceptions of digital 
cultural heritage are distinctly western in nature, the book also 
examines the complicity of such heritage in climate change, and 
environmental destruction and injustice. Going further still, the book 
theorizes the future of digital data, heritage, curation and the notion 
of the human in the context of the profusion of new types of societal 
data and production processes driven by the intensification of data 
economies and through the emergence of new technologies. In so doing, 
the book makes a case for the development of new types of heritage that 
comprise AI, automated systems, biological entities, infrastructures, 
minerals and chemicals – all of which have their own forms of agency, 
intelligence and cognition.

*Table of Contents*

 1. Introduction: Refiguring digital cultural heritage and curation;  2.
    The official birth of digital data as universal heritage; 3. Digital
    data as the heritage of the modern world; 4. Object concepts in
    digital cultural heritage;  5. From objects to ecological
    formations;  6. Digital data and artifactual production;  7.
    Curating inside the archive and out in the world;  8. The rise of
    more-than-human digital heritage in the   Technosphere; 9.
    Conclusion: Framing a more-than-human digital museology.


    Reviews

'In this highly prescient and original account, Fiona Cameron 
interrogates the vexed future custodianship of digital data. By bringing 
her incisive cultural heritage studies knowledge to bear on our rapidly 
increasing entanglement with the born-digital archive of objects, data 
and media, /The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation /advances 
a powerful conceptual framework for the curation and conservation of 
potentially every utterance of our private and public worlds: 
"Strikingly, digital data as heritage is not just the new fabric of 
human life, it is radically embedded in the vast and sprawling 
ecological circumstances of life itself."'　

*Hannah Lewi*, /The University of Melbourne, Australia/

"This book offers an innovative new approach to digital cultural 
heritage. This is a fast moving but under-examined topic, but Fiona 
Cameron’s approach is different, focusing right in on central 
contemporary issues, using an up to the minute conceptual framework, 
engaging closely with museum theory and practice, and enlivened by lots 
of illustrations, examples, case studies and useful applications, 
everything from AI, Trump’s tweets, and sex bots to digitisation, 
informatics and museum CMS. In contrast to old fashioned humanist, 
materialist, Eurocentric approaches, Cameron argues that we have to 
understand digital cultural heritage through a lens which is ecological, 
post-humanist, and ‘more than human’. The idea of ‘eco-curating’ is a 
striking environmentalist/relational/networked reformulation of 
conventional curating as we know it."

*Conal McCarthy, */Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand/

/The book can be purchased /can be purchased through 
https://www.routledge.com/The-Future-of-Digital-Data-Heritage-and-Curation-In-a-More-than-Human/Cameron/p/book/9780367690588 
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Future-of-Digital-Data-Heritage-and-Curation-In-a-More-than-Human/Cameron/p/book/9780367690588>


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