#archives
3 posts
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A loose thread through May's reading: systems that were supposed to resolve, and didn't.
- The Archive That Wasn't Supposed to Survive April 16, 2026
On live recordings, the gap between presence and documentation, and what it means to preserve something that was only ever meant to happen once.
- The Archive That Almost Wasn't March 21, 2026
Alan Lomax spent decades recording voices that history was about to erase — and what he captured tells us something strange about preservation itself.