ARCHIVE
It’s a bit like dreaming, which is always a bit like remembering.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
I grieve for many things; the engine of my grief changes, sometimes hourly. I grieve for our increasingly hostile and uninhabitable world, and I grieve for the cruelties that make it so, both structural ones and ones that individuals inflict on one another. But today I am grieving because I struggle to fathom all of the material loss of meaningful... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
Lists of destroyed buildings posted by the L.A. Conservancy and USModernist offer a ghost map of a past that extends far beyond living memory.
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.
To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to... See more
To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to... See more
Patricia Hurducaș • Archives: Anchors For Attention
Now I can’t imagine writing anything without reading a bunch PDFs about it first, to get a sense of the history of the idea and what conversations and discourses I’ll be entering. It feels a bit disrespectful and also irresponsible to do otherwise.
amateur hour
Some great-grandchild will find this book at the back of the closet. And I will, at least as a pale apparition, come briefly to life.
Jillian Hess • Helen Sword's Pleasurable Notes
Curation has been too focused on the information and not enough on architecture; how we collect, store, augment, and utilize what’s already in our minds.
Adam Grant • Check Your Pulse #55
I used the footnotes like clues in a mystery. You build out from the article, making a web of relationships and then work your way back in. At least that’s how it works for me. When I didn’t understand something, I looked it up. There was a lot I didn’t understand. There is so much I don’t understand.