This idea particularly resonated with me. If a particular archive is meant to be a cultural space that is meant for community to come together in some way, then affect is the main way to make someone come back to a space. It brings warmth and welcoming energy.

It makes me curious to explore archives that are not so insistent on being a cultural space and more concerned with research. I've only spent time in community archives, which seems natural but an archive that has less concern with being an active space then has a different audiance and purpose and meaning in and of itself.

The authors thoughts on the idea that archivists don't have the desire to create these policies is really curious to me. I can see the policy having, like the author argues, positive impacts on the integrity of a collection, but are archivists in these institutions concerned with integrity? I wonder about archivist motivation - if motivation of collecting was probed a bit more in these questions how that would affect the answers.

My main experience in an archive is a free community archive, which is not for profit and maybe is a space mostly for indipendant research. At Interference Archive, they have a collections policy and regularly consult it and use it to manage thier limited space, specifically, among other things.

As I become more familiar with the definitions of provenance, this particular instance compels me as I can see many examples of this in some of the media that I consume -

For instance, there is a zine called Sex Change USA by Daisy Thursday [https://luma.com/o1iss5rd] that is a collection of “stories where transgender people were covered in the National Esquire, Sun, and Weekly World News tabloids from 1993-2002.”

What I took away from Sex Change USA was not only a better understanding of the different contexts the pieces from the zine have lived in and do currently live in but a better understanding of the context of it’s current time and how those pieces interact with and inform each other.