theorywatch

I had been aware of this exhibit before I left upstate New York, as the grounds of the former Willard Psychiatric Institute aren’t too far north of Ithaca, and I used to drive past them occasionally. As I continue to think about the so-called records continuum, however, this “baggage” seems to weigh increasingly heavily on me in accounting for organizational documentation, both economic and evidentiary. Exemplary evidence: I suspect that it symbolizes a great deal in terms of the actual “human capital” “used” in the workings of any organizational recordkeeping system.

archives, records