“Archive management, by nature of being an administrative process, is burdened with an inherent hierarchization. This is not to put blame on the archivist or the administrator, prone to human error simply by nature of being human, but rather on the administrative processes which govern and therefore tend to a hierarchy of needs over others. For example, as de Dixmude notes in writing around her work—her own context conservation, as it were—“the archive relies on a harsh selection process, in order to keep the archive from drowning under its own weight.” The material conditions of the archive therefore pose a contradictory threat to the archive itself: it is impossible to archive everything and, therefore, impossible to trust that which is archived.” Excerpt from an essay on Pia Jacques de Dixmude by Isabelle Sully