Pirating a Preterit database of Dreams

ish mailian ishmailian at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 16:07:36 CST 2015


Long before the NSA set up its gray-faced data farms across the country, or
the Library of Congress began archiving the Twittersphere, there was Bert
Kaplan and his staggering collection of Microcards. A Harvard psychologist
with big dreams of rescuing “the discards and leftovers, the neglected
documents [comprising] the whole body of empirical observations upon which
psychology is based,” Kaplan hoped to build the biggest database of
anthropological information ever created.

https://theamericanscholar.org/database-of-dreams/#.Vl4ZCnarS1s

http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300209525
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