December 31, 2024

Hopes

As the year turns, the importance of archives can seem trivial when held against the urgency of world events.

But archives are a collection of little hopes, like moon dust that scientists study now and save portions of for later researchers who have more precise (or even unimaginable) technologies.

In the same way, efforts to preserve archival materials are acts of faith in the future: other perspectives, other thinkers, other contexts within which a given archive can and will be (re)evaluated-situated-interpreted.

Cheers to those who gather, maintain, and use (including you!) archives — from the first snow to the summer and back again.

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This newsletter was written on the traditional lands of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank.