I was quite moved to read the account of how the papers of the diseased Jewish Philosopher Husserl where saved for posterity.
This quote struck me hard: This reveals one of the essential characteristics of an archive. To be an archive, the material must be public – there is no such thing as a private archive. It is located in space, a space outside the person whom it historicises. In this way, an archive is always threatened with destruction, and with it the person or time commemorated. Totalitarian governments of all stripes have recognised this – for all the defiance of the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s phrase ‘manuscripts don’t burn’ – they do, and with them are immolated lives, ways of being, and cultures.
Link: https://aeon.co/essays/how-archives-can-make-or-break-a-philosophers-reputation
We must continue to build out systems like #nostr and #bittorrent -like hosting to ensure that any culture will survive the next wave of Left or Right politics that will no doubt require its own wave of (digital) book burnings 🔥
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