Notes
1. Jarrett M Drake, ‘I’m Leaving the Archival Profession: It’s Better This Way’, 2017, available at <https://medium.com/on-archivy/im-leaving-the-archival-profession-it-s-better-this-way-ed631c6d72fe>, accessed 30 September 2017.
2. The Archival Platform, ‘State of the Archives: An Analysis of South Africa’s National Archival System’, 2014, available at <http://www.archivalplatform.org/images/resources/State_of_the_Archive_FOR_WEB.pdf>, accessed 30 September 2017.
3. Here I’m echoing the title of a book by James Hillman and Michael Ventura, We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse, Harper, San Francisco, 1993.
4. See Verne Harris, ‘Insistering Derrida: Cixous, Deconstruction and the Work of Archive’, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2017.
5. ibid.
6. Verne Harris, ‘Reflections from the 2016 Mandela Dialogues’, 2017, available at <https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/reflections-from-the-2016-mandela-dialogues>, accessed 30 September 2017.
7. Jacques Derrida, Negotiations, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2002.
8. David Bohm, On Dialogue, Routledge, New York, 1996.
9. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012, p. 1.
10. Terry Eagleton, Hope Without Optimism, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2015, p. 41.
11. Eagleton; Michael Snediker, Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009.
12. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope, Bloomsbury, London, 2016, p. 2.
13. ibid., p. 89.
14. Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2011, p. 19.
15. Eagleton, p. 4.
16. This definition of faith is very close to Vaclev Havel’s definition of hope. See Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, Canongate, Edinburgh, 2016, p. 11.
17. Eagleton, p. 80.
18. Harris.