Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice

An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.

Annotation—the seemingly simple act of marking a text—is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irrelevant to social and political concerns. But what if annotation were reimagined as a critical and civic literacy that can inscribe public memory, struggles for justice, and social change? In Re/...