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I have used the Prelinger before to find old media for class presentations and discussions, and its true, it has lots of interesting stuff. I'm a little worried that a place like this will eventually fold, however. As a privately funded archive, if the money ever runs out, where will all this stuff go?
I suppose this is the same problem any privately funded archive of anything has, but it seems especially acute when the materials archived are represented numerically in a database. I have not looked into how extensively the stuff is "backed up" on physical media, but it is an interesting question to consider.
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RE: Prelinger
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Apr 9 2007, 9:36 PM EDT
we have seen these things with our eyes and ears...in that sense, they would exist within us. If one chooses to download and save a file, big surprise...there is still a collective out there it just becomes fragrmented. I think things like this should be looked at from more of a narrative standpoint. That's what we do, is it not? We have to create a narrative to establish our physical lives (or someone has to create one for us) What is a book? Have you actually read one that you can say you understand absolutely? B/C if anyone can, please get in touch with me and explain this. This is the dilemna (or at least my dilemna) to human communication. Libraries are standing evidence that archiving is still taking place. Every year new information is added to them. This is just an alternative approach to that. Creation and history go hand in hand...what will you leave behind to (as a pretentious, hypocritical cynic) to muddy the water?
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