Incurable Ill. Miren Jaio

archive n 1 a compilation of documents recording events that have already taken place 2 an innate element of great tales, aspires to totality and universality, although its nature is incomplete and partial 3 creates breaks in the habitual perception of existence as a continuous unbroken whole 4 it is functional in character: the archive of the past is used to attempt to make sense of the present and the future 5 almost nothing remains outside it and it is omnipresent in the collective imaginarium. Interestingly, an “imaginarium” is also a type of archive.

There are many possible definitions associated with the term “archive”. We will now try to analyse the reasons for “archive sickness” through an analysis of three definitions of the term.