Pad.ma: Ten Thesis on the Archive

1. Don’t Wait for the Archive

2. Archives are not reducible to the particular Forms that they take

3. The Direction of Archiving will be Outward, not Inward

4. The Archive is not a Scene of Redemption

5. The Archive deals not only with the Remnant but also with the Reserve

6. Historians have merely interpreted the Archive. The Point however is to Feel it

7. The Image is not just the Visible, the Text is not just the Sayable

8. The Past of the Exhibition Threatens the Future of the Archive

9. Archives are governed by the Laws of Intellectual Propriety as opposed to Property

10. Time is not Outside of the Archive: It is in it.