Reposted by Craig Robertsonthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is out now -- a man worth knowing & knowing about. 28312
Reposted by Craig Robertsonbyron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026rec of the day: CRAIG ROBERTSON Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly (Auckland University Press tpb) deeply researched, sprawling & profusely illustrated bio of the key figure of New Zealand's musical underground. a great read for any fan of the modern kiwi beat. bookshop.org/p/books/chri...bookshop.orgChris Knox: Not Given LightlyThe story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude. Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly tells the story of one extraordinarily creative man's journey from the obscurity of punk rock to the heart of New ... 1327
Reposted by Craig RobertsonCraig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow). 011
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow). 011
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026New Zealand have never won a game at the Word Cup but in 2010 they were the only unbeaten team (3 draws in group play; Spain won the final but lost a group game). 040
Reposted by Craig RobertsonMarc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Love this story from Craig Robertson's Chris Knox bio about how an Auckland punk band learned to play "Anarchy in the UK" by taping the short bits that aired in a news segment off of the TV and just playing those parts. (Try to explain this to a young person today haha) 17018
Reposted by Craig RobertsonSimon Grigg @opdiner.com · 07/10/2025I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love. These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when... #aotearoa @audioculturenz.bsky.socialopdiner.substack.com'Cause, when it all comes down to dustCan I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived. 22713
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025In hindsight not a great idea to have your hobby be writing a book when your day job is writing books but a decade in the making my bio of Aotearoa NZ musician Chris Knox is coming out in a few months. 190
Reposted by Craig RobertsonPhilip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 11/07/2025What a year for the legends of NZ music. The Don McGlashan doco. The Shayne Carter doco. And now the Chris Knox biography, out in Oct. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/chris-knox/aucklanduniversitypress.co.nzChris Knox: Not Given LightlyThe story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude. 1101
Reposted by Craig RobertsonStartling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 19/05/2025"Not This Way- Knot This Way!" Internal GPO poster advising on the correct knotting method. Unknown artist, September 1964. Ref POST 110/1569, Royal Mail Archive 06214
Reposted by Craig RobertsonCraig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Some more background on the history of passports & free Black people pre 14th Am. States could issue passports & abolitionists exploited this to use ppts to argue for citizenship. And while numbers are low the State Dept did issue more than 2 passports (1) 103
Reposted by Craig RobertsonCraig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025This is content you need - an Instagram account devoted to poles www.instagram.com/polesofcambr... 041
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025This is content you need - an Instagram account devoted to poles www.instagram.com/polesofcambr... 041
Reposted by Craig RobertsonShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b... 2487
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025As many of you know Jonathan Sterne is in hospice. If you would like to send a message to Jonathan and Carrie please send an email to heyjonandcarrie@gmail.com Carrie is receiving these messages and sharing them with Jonathan 03813
Reposted by Craig RobertsonCraig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025If a passport is an ID document for citizens you don’t need to include gender. But a passport has always been a tool to manage citizenship & behavior of citizens that’s why it has a gender marker. (see quotes) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...nytimes.comTransgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in CourtThe A.C.L.U. filed a lawsuit after the president’s administration stopped issuing passports that reflect the gender identity of transgender and nonbinary people. 141
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025If a passport is an ID document for citizens you don’t need to include gender. But a passport has always been a tool to manage citizenship & behavior of citizens that’s why it has a gender marker. (see quotes) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...nytimes.comTransgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in CourtThe A.C.L.U. filed a lawsuit after the president’s administration stopped issuing passports that reflect the gender identity of transgender and nonbinary people. 141
Reposted by Craig RobertsonShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Dirt/Night Gallery's books of assorted iPhone notes: the 21st-c version of the epistolary novel - meets - commonplace book - meets- critical edition (considering a lot of iPhone notes are *drafts* of things people bang out cathartically but never send :) nightgallery.metalabel.com/notes?varian...nightgallery.metalabel.comNotesNotes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and Night Gallery. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors. Ranging from packing ... 0183
Reposted by Craig RobertsonRobyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Doesn't this feel familiar? @craigrobertson.bsky.social writing on the dominance of the passport as a governing technology (and why many of us fear online age identity verification is a trojan horse w/ implications for all internet users). 051
Reposted by Craig RobertsonCraig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A powerful review of Pagan’s new book on the history of the rape kit. 011
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A powerful review of Pagan’s new book on the history of the rape kit. 011
Reposted by Craig RobertsonMarketplace @marketplace.org · 14/12/2024Offices look different now than they did a few years ago, which is to say many of them are a lot emptier. But, other than humans, something else has disappeared from the modern office space: filing cabinets.mktplc.orgHow did filing cabinets revolutionize data storage? - MarketplaceCraig Robertson, a media historian at Northeastern University, is the author of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information." 0101
Reposted by Craig RobertsonCraig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024@marketplaceapm.bsky.social asked me to talk filing cabinets for their new series on short takes on overlooked tech www.marketplace.org/2024/12/09/f...marketplace.orgHow did filing cabinets revolutionize data storage? - MarketplaceCraig Robertson, a media historian at Northeastern University, is the author of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information." 0188
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024@marketplaceapm.bsky.social asked me to talk filing cabinets for their new series on short takes on overlooked tech www.marketplace.org/2024/12/09/f...marketplace.orgHow did filing cabinets revolutionize data storage? - MarketplaceCraig Robertson, a media historian at Northeastern University, is the author of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information." 0188
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 05/11/2024As they say there’s always a local angle: for identification technology scholars 030
Reposted by Craig RobertsonLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 30/12/2023oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduThe Specter of the ArchiveAn exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informa... 37226
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 22/11/2023And Diana Kamin is now here - @dianakamin.bsky.social 161
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Diana Kamin’s fantastic book is out! I happily wrote a blurb “In this remarkable book, Kamin shows how 20thC social networks of paper & touch shaped today's digital image economy. An invaluable perspective and a major contribution to media & info studies.” Open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...direct.mit.eduPicture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image EconomyHow the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture.The origins of today' 25522