Download or read book Lost in the Archives written by Rebecca Comay and published by Alphabet City. This book was released on 2002 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a crisis in the archives. The contemporary world requires that increasingly vast amounts of material be archived and accessed, and this presents unprecedented possibilites and problems for the production, storage, and use of knowledge. With this context in view, Lost in the Archives explores the productive potential of memory's failures - its technical dropouts, omissions, burials, eclipses, and denials ..."--Page 2 de la couverture.