An aural investigation of the socio-historic construction of library practices, Sounding the Radical Catalog amplifies the oft-invisible work of catalogers and archivists. As these workers order the bibliographic universe piece by piece, they implement--or resist--dominant ways of understanding the world. Sounding the Radical Catalog captures the complexities of cataloging; sharing the voices of activist librarians, who through their practice challenge the narrow articulation of gender, sex, identity, class and the colonialist visions embedded in library classification schemes.

Sounding the radical catalog

Kinokophone collects and composes sounds, stories and imagery from around the world. Kinokophone take their name from the Japanese word for mushroom. Mushrooms are a product of intricate connections that lie beyond the surface, with roots in folklore and imaginary worlds, much like the work we produce.