Principles

In this section, we discuss some of the principles that could guide the development and maintenance of a digital archive of the zine HeartattaCk.

These principles are all up for debate. There are no correct standards and standards are likely not needed. These principles are not prescriptions that should be followed. As such, these principles are not offered here as a list of things to do or avoid. Instead these principles are offered conversationally according to the circumstances we describe below. What you do with the ideas we raise here is up to you. Some of these might only matter for a zine like HeartattaCk, given its prominence, substance, and numerous contributors. And no doubt there is much more to consider!

An zine archive makes important parts of punk culture available to future generations as well as those interested in their own past. An archive can share and preserve HeartattaCk for readers and provide a model for others to be inspired by or diverge from. An archive can also take something that belonged to our subculture and make it available to everyone. Is this a always a good thing? Do zines need to be tangible. Is it the same to look at scans on screen? Who has the right to share punk zines? What might this mean for people in the present, if their past activities are suddenly public?

Ethics and the Digital Archive

Archiving Sensitive Material

Making Zines is not the same as Archiving Zines

An autoethnography

Distorting Memory

Archives can remember and forget

Nostalgia, Memory, and Forgetting

The importance of diverse perspectives

Organizing the Archive

An archive can shape what we learn from it

Studying Existing Archives

How have others organized their archives?

“Cyborgs, as established by author Donna Haraway, are not reverent. They do not remember the cosmos.”


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