When the record slips, the landscape widens

Preserving information matters. Not because data is sacred, but because absence is not neutral. Every forgotten love, erased life, and massacre that slips from the record leaves a cavity, and cavities widen. Without deliberate acts of remembering, they become the landscape we call solid. That is why Stacey Hardy's work treats the hole as evidence, not emptiness, suggesting that to understand being human is to account for what has been taken and what threatens to disappear. South Africa is commemorating decades of the event of history that shaped the country and writer, researcher and editor Stacey Hardy joins us to speak about the importance of preserving information.

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