thinking about how the practice of archiving + preserving can introduce new use to an object, ie the rosetta stone wasn't made to be an object of translation in the way it is today. mulling over this re: commodity fetishism / "use-value,"

and the way artifacts circulate even though i quite often imagine them accruing dust on a shelf. i'd like to know how this looks w digital objects, maybe i am just hoping that adobe flash gets rehabilitated (if only allegorically) as a sort of rosetta stone too? @DigitCurator

and now rememebering that rosetta stone provides the branding concept for a digital language learning software company, lol