#discontinuous

The Archive, then, is not so much an accumulation of texts as the process whereby texts are written; a process of repeated combinations, of shuffling and re-shufflings ruled by heterogeneity and difference. It is not strictly linear as both continuity and discontinuity, held together in uneasy allegiance. ... they are both erased and a memory of their own demise, keys to a filing system now abandoned, but they retain their archival quality, their power to differentiate, to space (p.374).