{"id":6593,"date":"2006-07-27T22:30:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T22:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/indexical-think\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T22:30:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T22:30:59","slug":"indexical-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/indexical-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Indexical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>As I continue to plod ahead with preparations for qualifying exams, I&#8217;m<br \/>\nbecoming more and more cognizant of indexes and also more dependent on the them.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve used indexes more casually in the past, almost always involving them as an<br \/>\nafter-thought to front-to-back reading&#8211;as something merely referential, a<br \/>\nauxiliary text ranking well below everything else, a match with its rear-most<br \/>\nposition. A mere aid to memory rather than a multiple and complex terminal for<br \/>\ndifferentiated reading encounters. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to know just how much my own tagging habits have overhauled my<br \/>\nexpectations when reading. Between Flickr, del.icio.us, cite-u-like, blog<br \/>\nentries and <a href=\"http:\/\/inventio.us\/ccc\/\"><i>CCC<\/i> Online<\/a>, I&#8217;m ever<br \/>\nmore frequently engaging with tagging systems, applying tags or using them as<br \/>\nbumper cushions on various meanderings around the internets. Thing is, I&#8217;m<br \/>\nfinding that because of this I want more from the indexes of books. More and<br \/>\nmore often, perhaps because some kind of indexical desire is piqued by the<br \/>\nplenty of tagging systems for reading online, the indexes of books disappoint<br \/>\nme. Just today, in the back of <i>Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work<\/i>,<br \/>\nI was scanning the index. Came to &quot;Turkle, Sherry, 212.&quot; And flipped.<br \/>\nOnly an endnote in Selfe and Selfe&#8217;s &quot;The Intellectual Work of Computers and<br \/>\nComposition Studies&quot;; &quot;Turkle,&quot; named in a list. That was that. <\/p>\n<p>Early this summer I was trying to get up to speed with exam prep, tinkering<br \/>\naround, trying to get organized. And one of the bigger of the hitches was<br \/>\nuncertainty with my ever-evolving note-keeping system. Throughout<br \/>\ncoursework, I used a few different systems, some of which are posted here in the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/mt\/archives\/cat_reading_notes.html\"><br \/>\nreading notes category<\/a>. Other methods I&#8217;ve tried involve lists of<br \/>\nphrases with page numbers and letters to locate page<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/mt\/archives\/001097.html\">positioning<\/a><br \/>\nand other combinations of handwritten or typed notes. But for exams I<br \/>\nwanted something more indexically entangled, more integrated with tagging and<br \/>\ncross-referencing, all managed by assigning keywords that I could pool, sort,<br \/>\nand free-associate. It took me a couple of weeks to get it set up and<br \/>\nrunning smoothly, and now I&#8217;m reasonably satisfied with the results&#8211;results<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll share early this fall provided I can continue to make reasonably steady<br \/>\nprogress with reading and annotating. If not for a flurry of new tagging<br \/>\nhabits, I probably would&#8217;ve been content with old-fashioned note-keeping,<br \/>\nalthough I&#8217;m skeptical about my own ability to find my way through them once<br \/>\nthey pile up.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt this will raise many eyebrows, but I don&#8217;t find it the least bit<br \/>\npreposterous to suggest that book indexes should be resituated. Move them<br \/>\nto the front of the book, I say. Add indexical information for each<br \/>\nchapter (especially for edited collections). After all, for me at least, indexes<br \/>\nare the new table of contents. I&#8217;ll grant that this is probably more of a<br \/>\npersonal revolution and not something bigger (or it is, whatever). But<br \/>\nconsider the possibilities in a variant of cite-u-like that would offer a book&#8217;s<br \/>\nindexed terms (by chapter, also) and would allow you to select from them while<br \/>\nalso pulling from the tags of others and adding your own. Sort of like<br \/>\nwhat you can do with the <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ccco\">del.icio.us site for<br \/>\n<i>CCC<\/i> Online<\/a> when fold a link into your own collection. You get<br \/>\nthe prefab, auto-indexed stuff plus your own. Today&#8217;s <i>what if<\/i>: the index<br \/>\nof <i>R&amp;C as Intellectual Work<\/i> available online in such a way that it<br \/>\ncooperates with other web 2.0 apps. 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