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The profound melancholy of archival theory

Posted on March 18, 2011
by John Jackson

From Jennifer Howard’s blog post, in which she talks to Bruce Sterling, who says:

“There are forms of media that are just inherently unstable, and the attempt to stabilize them is like the attempt to go out and stabilize the corkboard at the laundromat,” he adds. “You can get into big trouble that way.”

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