All Futurists Are Archivists, All Archivists Are Futurists

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• Author: Substack
• Full Title: All Futurists Are Archivists, All Archivists Are Futurists
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• Topics: #humans #archiving
• URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179907743?ref=sentiers.media

Highlights

• The archives that matter to us, the ones that hold the fullness of Black life, operate by a different logic. They require: touch, breath, tactility, conversation, mess, risk, community proximity. To speak of archiving in this spirit is to speak of a different form of care — the kind defined by labour, commitment and the refusal to let (hi)stories disappear. (View Highlight)
• Archival work becomes a way of refusing this erosion. It becomes a defense against spatial violence — a practice anchored in the belief that what we remember shapes what we can demand. (View Highlight)