My discussion will explore the concept of the âliving documentâ as it was understood in the mid-twentieth century as the problem of joining knowledge and experience, science and literature. It will focus on documents as representation versus documents as what various authors have called documentality or philosopher Barry Smith has called âdocument acts.â In this context I will attempt to articulate documents as strongly fixed and strongly causal indexical, rather than representational, signs, which move agents from one point to another, physically or logically, epistemically within chains of what Latour has called âinformation.â Join the seminar Starting in Fall 2020, participants must have a Zoom account and be logged in. Sign up for your free account here. If this is your first time using Zoom, please allow a few extra minutes to download and install the browser plugin or mobile app.