Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Inventory is the new archive. It is strange that no one has said it before. Inventory: apprehending the records of the past in order to understand the present and prepare for the future. Today's inventories are entire living ecosystems of products, control systems, consumers, barcode scanners, warehouse shipments, Internet shopping carts. Inventory has ceased to track, merely: inventory does. And who would ever stop with inventory? Inventory is only always an invitation to access, a means to a (never-)end(ing).
Repository Citation
Filipetti, Jenny. "The Perpetual Archive: Mapping Living Archive as Inventory." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1–17. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss1/17