K.D. Kemp

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95 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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It's Been a Minute · Will physical media take us back to the future? · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

Some of the greatest things that I've discovered have come through the algorithm, like learning how to repair Walkmans and

you know, like this thing with Cyberdex, that's all fed to me through the algorithm.

But now I have to sift through junk to get to that.

And that's really frustrating.

And I think people are broadly experiencing that and feeling that, which is what's pushing them to start seeking out alternatives.

And again, I go back to that word autonomy, but I think it's really driven by this desire to have autonomy over your media and over your technology and to have the right to repair things.

I think Amazon was just in the news because it completely phased out a whole swath of Kindles from like 2012, which really was not that long ago.

And I think people, they feel, especially when they've purchased something, they feel entitled to have the right to continue to access or the right to repair.

And I absolutely think that's what's underpinning all of

this with cyberdex and physical media and all of that.

So that's something like, as an archivist, we constantly have that sort of philosophical discussion of what gets preserved and

more importantly, thinking about what wasn't preserved.

And when you look back historically to the profession and who was in that profession, you can see why so many voices were not preserved throughout history.

And I think just within the field, there has been more of a surge in recent years of capturing marginalized voices or traditionally underrepresented voices, but we've also seen it start to swing back, you know,

the other direction.

And that's where I think it's really important for the efforts of like citizen archivists or guerrilla archivists.

And I like to say that honestly, everybody is an archivist.

And one of the use cases that I think of is the story of Marion Stokes, who you've probably heard recorded tens of thousands of VHS tapes of news, you know, TV news,

And she just did it out of love and out of passion.

And that's a collection that probably doesn't exist anywhere else.

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