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Digital Archives, Informations Storms and the Knowledge Conundrum

An essay on the contradictions of the Internet Archive and the contemporary obsession with saving everything. Drawing on Walter Benjamin and Nietzsche, it argues that an excess of data does not produce more knowledge but more opacity: digital information is controlled by private corporations, is physically fragile, and its language — clouds, oceans, flows — conceals the material and political conditions that sustain it. Published in Dissolve SF, 2016.

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