Jefferson’s library on LibraryThing

Douglas Galbi has a great post on Jefferson’s library on his purple motes blog. Jefferson’s library is in LibraryThing. Cool.

Sexuality is a principle upon which all aspects of society are organized

Is it really possible to say this? The more I look into it, the more I believe it’s true. Looking to Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Linnaeus, and LC/Dewey, I have to say that yes, sex and power (which are inextricable) are deeply embedded in our classification systems. I’m reading LCSH to find explicit and implicit representations [...]