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title = "An Autonomous Archive"
glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
has_shards = ["exuberance.md", "redundancy.md", "infinite-use-of-finite-means.md", "conviviality.md", "maintenance.md", "enshittification.md", "autonomouslife.md", "analogies.md", "difference.md", "exuberance.md", "conviviality.md", "mediating-difference.md", "interface.md", "custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md"]
has_shards = ["autonomouslife.md", "conviviality.md", "custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md", "difference.md", "enshittification.md", "exuberance.md", "infinite-use-of-finite-means.md", "interface.md", "maintenance.md", "mediating-difference.md", "redundancy.md"]
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The fundamental tension of the archive is between ![exuberance](shard:exuberance.md) and ![compression](shard:redundancy.md). Exuberance is not a consequence of hoarding, an accumulation of junk. Only a naive understanding of archiving prioritizes scale over information, after all, a lot of the same is not much at all. Analogously, compression is not merelythe manipulation of symbols as to find a denser representation of information.