Calls to compile one’s infinite traces feel redemptive before they are understood

Evidence

An infinite history of traces without an inventory! An endless collection of oneself that is impossible to gather … I had no concrete idea of what it meant, or what currency it had in my own life, but I knew how it felt. It felt as though the broken thing I was might be restored, and it felt like an embodied idea I would never stop desiring for myself and for the world. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 268

Categorization

• XREF: The infinite-traces archive motif draws directly on Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks; this is the diagnostic thread Kornbluh pulls toward her claim that immediacy is an economic symptom.