We are caught in a paradox. On the one hand, our technical capabilities for\ud
archiving and preserving the past have improved significantly; on the other, the swift pace of\ud
modern life seems to limit that selfsame capacity to register past events and experiences. If the\ud
present presses on to make itself past, particularly through writing with images, how can we\ud
build upon it a body of knowledge that is precisely grounded in the assumption that past and\ud
present are two radically different and separate dimensions of time, requiring time to turn\ud
events and experiences into history? The intent of this paper is to look into some of the current\ud
strategies used to lend visibility to the past as part of a social effort to transform time into\ud
culture
