Liam Buckly - objects of love and decay

Instead of revealing the truth about kolonial history, the archive is now, because of the decay, changing its history but also the image of the present culture? - Astrid

Liam Buckley points out that decay imposes an urge in the analysis of the documents. From this perspective it seems like the more a document is damaged the more it is alive. How does this relate to digital archives whose contents are (at least in theory) not affected by the passage of time? Could an artificial decay give new meaning and a different value to these documents? Those questions made me think of [The Art of Google Books http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/], a collection of glitches on scanned books. In this case decay is crystallized in the very moment of archiving, it's an eternal decay. - Silvio