Granular Certainty, the Vertical Filing Cabinet, and the Transformation of Files
Craig Robertson
Anthropomorphizing paper acknowledges the anxiety associated with misplacing loose paper. Circulating through the office, papers were expected to manifest the valuable attributes of information as a discrete unit but not to become disconnected from the... See more
Paper in vertical files gave a material existence to information as a thing that could be detached and repositioned, reordered, and recombined.