Up Against Erasure | Nanna Bonde Thylstrup: “Staying with the Trouble of Preservation: The Ambivalent Politics of Deletion in Digital Societies”

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Copenhagen and Principal Investigator of the multi-year project Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies (DALOSS) funded by the European Research Council. Her research examines the politics and ethics of data, machine learning and digital infrastructures, with a particular interest in how digitization and algorithmic processes are changing how we encounter, govern and practice knowledge and its infrastructures. She is the author of The Politics of Mass Digitization (MIT Press, 2018), and co-editor of Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press, 2021) and (W)ARCHIVES: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2021). Her writing has appeared in venues ranging from Big Data & Society to the New York Times. She has held visiting fellowships at Duke, Cornell and Columbia, and serves as the humanities representative in the University of Copenhagen's Quantum Hub Network.