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session notes

Visitor: Jérémie Lumbroso, Princeton Computer Science (1:30–2:30)

Note: Election Day is a month away. Are you all set up to vote? Please see Princeton’s Vote100 Project.

Note: this is the University’s midterm examination week.

Before Class 📚 Read:  David Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America (2007). Introduction and Chapter 4.  🎧 Listen:  “The Revolutionary Post”, interview with Winifred Gallagher on 99% Invisible (22:55)  ✏️ Write:  No response questions for this week. Focus on the practicum instead!  ❀

Practicum Download and analyze all the text messages on your phone.

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Related Links artifact of the week: Cicero’s letters  Mary Beard, “Ciceronian Correspondences: Making a Book out of Letters.” In Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome (2006) Hannah Čulík-Baird, “Looking at Ciceronian papyri in the John Rylands”, o pietas animi [blog post]  history of the postal system  Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America: A History (2016) John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox (2011)  21st century  on last mile logistics on post 9/11 securitization of the postal system on COVID and mail-in ballots: “Is the Mail Getting Slower? We’re Tracking It.” New York Times, Sep 14, 2020