Perhaps, curious reader, you may be eager to know what was then said and done? Click on the images below to hear and see for yourself.
– Apuleius Metamorphoses (adapted)
Originally – an appropriate beginning, since the Greek word arche, from which the notion is derived means “beginning” – an archive is a place of storage and ordering of the material objects that feel and facilitate cultural memory. Its primary feature is pastness.
– Mieke Bal “Archive” in Something Strange this Way.
[A] bit like the answering machine whose voice outlives its moment of recording
– Jacques Derrida Archive Fever
Update – September 23, 2026
I just bought the below catalog of Janet Cardiff’s work and so I went back to Minus Plato to see what I’d posted about her and her partner George Bures Miller’s work in the past.
Arriving here I realized that all the links led nowhere and to silence, so I am adding a link for you to see and hear by clicking the image below.
I’m curious to see how long this link holds!