"The times we are living in seem all too real and, against all expectations, the best evidence seems to lie in a few dozen grainy digital photographs e-mailed from the other side of the world."

"This issue explores the possibilities of mobile technologies (and mobile scholarship) while also illustrating that mobility is not equally available to everyone nor inherently a good thing."

"Indeed, those of us who study the artifacts and stories of cultural and artistic production may be in the midst of a new dark age, inundated with such a profusion of information that we can never hope to organize or digest it, much less sensibly preserve it for the future."

"Throughout this same period, an array of scholars from a number of fields has tracked the many ways that the machines we interact with co-produce what we can perceive and know."

"I am not so much arguing that one mode is causally related to the other, but, rather, that they both represent a move toward fragmentary or modular ways of knowing and of organizing information, knowledges increasingly prevalent in the later half of the 20th century."

"In truth, memory is in a constant state of flux and contestation, continually being rescripted and regenerated to conform to the needs of any given present."

"This transition in the Vectors workflow includes the shedding of print-based conventions of themed 'issues' and numbered 'volumes' in favor of the more agile format of rolling submissions and projects released individually or in clusters throughout the year."