archival sliver
Just a quick note for my future self, that Verne Harrisâ notion of the âarchival sliverâ seems like a great sanity inducing antidote to the notion of total archives.
The archival record is best understood as a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of a window into process. It is a fragile thing, an enchanted thing, defined not by its connection to ârealityâ, but by its open-ended layerings of construction and reconstruction.
The Archival Sliver: Power, Memory and Archives in South Africa.