archival nightmares + that's pretty much it
Babes and bots, Ever wondered about the obscurities of common words? Here I was, sitting in a magical workshop while new classmates shared their genius ideas, not listening to their genius ideas because I was too focused on the first word: archivist. And what if I re-wrote the definition like this: a person who maintains and is in [charge of] archives Idiotic? Lame? Misleading? You tell me. Maintains = charge? So I started thinking about the possibilities here: one's identity as an archivist, one's role as an archivist, and one's passion as an archivist. Are they different, the same, or overlapping? Probably all three, and none of the above. I suppose what I wanted to think specifically about were the origins of an archivist & The Archive. When I was in college I took an Art History course in which The Archive was in our everyday lexicon. To my understanding at this current moment, The Archive is a powerful and empowered set of...