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The Archive as an Antidote

Ruins, Records, and the act of Remembering

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Apr 12, 2026
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"I’m excited to share a special collaboration with Cards of History. We’re both passionate about preserving the past and keeping its stories alive. This piece reflects on ruins, records, and why remembering still matters. You can read the full article for free below!"
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There is something the modern world is very good at: forgetting. Not the honest forgetting of grief or exhaustion, but the ideological kind, erasure dressed up as progress. The past is a problem to be solved, a weight to be dropped, a story to be revised until it fits the present’s preferred self-image.

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