Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive (Published 2016)

That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The phenomenon of collecting loses its meaning as it loses its personal owner.” Just as collections require permanence, they also need individuals, whose voices and tastes they express. The mass of Spotify isn’t actually a collection; it’s an avalanche.

To build up “a huge archive of thinking and feeling” seems a necessary project for any artist, even without publication as the eventual goal.