Kalyani Tupkary

The filing cabinet encouraged the drive to break more and more of modern life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable, and manageable parts

In the 20th-century office, female file clerks were expected to handle papers — but not to understand their contents.

The Computer Pays Its Debt  tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.

They're tall. They're totally absurd. And they're everywhere.

While historical texts have long been subject to critical analysis, the formal and historical problems posed by graphic representations of time have largely been ignored. This is no small matter: graphic representation is among our most important tools for organizing information.*