3Chronicles of Things Made

A log of recent writings, sounds, and gestures

Published March 29, 2026

Over the past days (March 16 to March 29), four texts have converged into a single line of inquiry. Written across different sections — notes, chronicles, and blogs — they form a continuous movement that begins in the ground and extends into the architecture of knowledge systems.

It opens with From Quisquiza (03): Ground, a field note on compacted soil in a high-Andean cloud forest. The ground appears intact, but just below the surface a dense layer stops everything: water runs off, roots hesitate and fail, nothing properly enters or holds. Before planting anything, the structure has to be opened — slowly, physically, and with no guarantee of immediate result. The same condition appears in many archival and library systems, where underlying structures may also compact, harden, and begin to resist what does not fit.

That logic shifts laterally in Moss is a Marginalia System, where attention moves from substrate to surface. Moss does not build primary structures; it attaches to what already exists and accumulates residual conditions — humidity, particles, microclimatic drift. It records what the system does not formally register, not by storing events, but by retaining traces of continuity at the edges. In documentary terms, these are the kinds of traces that rarely enter formal records, yet quietly shape how systems are actually inhabited.

The question of margins then enters librarianship explicitly in Margins as Infrastructure. Here, residual data — annotations, access patterns, informal classifications — are reconsidered not as secondary by-products, but as structural components of informational systems. What accumulates at the periphery provides the only continuous account of how those systems are actually used, inhabited, and transformed over time.

Finally, Radical Roots of Community-Centered Librarianship situates these dynamics within a longer historical frame. It traces how knowledge infrastructures have been built from below — in workers' libraries, mutual aid networks, and grassroots archives — where margins were not peripheral zones, but the very ground from which systems emerged.

These texts trace a displacement: from compacted ground to marginal growth, from marginal growth to residual data, and from residual data to the political and historical conditions of knowledge infrastructures. The movement is consistent across scales. When the substrate hardens, nothing enters. When margins are erased, nothing accumulates. And when accumulation is lost, systems forget how they function. What appears here is not a sequence of topics, but a single insistence: the conditions that sustain complexity are rarely located at the center.

4Coming Soon, If the Fog Allows

Upcoming writings, events, and works-in-progress

Published March 1, 2026

Over the coming months, new threads will begin to surface here — if conditions allow.

One of them is the relaunch of Wayrachaki Editora, an independent imprint devoted to open-access digital books written from the margins: manuals, chronicles, and editorial texts on libraries in resistance, insurgent orality, fragile archives, and knowledge practices shaped by conflict, scarcity, and territory. The imprint resumes its work with the same nomadic spirit that first gave it form, publishing texts that would never survive academic vetting and were never meant to.

Another thread takes shape through Tela de Araña, a set of consulting and advisory services focused on semantic design, metadata systems, community archives, and knowledge infrastructures where conventional models fail. This work unfolds slowly and situationally, through accompaniment rather than solutions, and will be documented here as it happens.

Alongside these developments, the chronicles, notes, and essays will continue. Writing will keep moving between forests and libraries, between theory and ground, following questions as they arise rather than as they are planned. Nothing here is scheduled in advance. Some things will arrive quietly. Others may never appear.

Fog, after all, has its own timing.

5Collected Texts, Sounds & Traces

Archive of published works and recorded materials

Published March 1, 2026

Over time, I have been reorgaizing my earlier publications into a structured archive. Texts once dispersed across journals, conferences, and digital platforms now inhabit defined sections that reflect the terrains from which they emerged. The archive currently includes Libraries from the South, Libraries in the Margins, Public Libraries, Librarianship and Research, and Digital Divide, alongside curated selections from Blog Bibliotecario, Bitácora de un bibliotecario, and the Princh Library Blog.

These sections are not a museum of completed work. They remain active spaces: updated, expanded, and occasionally recontextualized as questions evolve and threads reconnect. Together, they trace the long arc of a professional trajectory concerned with decolonial critique, marginal territories, institutional responsibility, technological inequality, documentary practice, and the politics of memory.

What appears in the present writing grows from those earlier layers. The archive is not a backdrop. It is the foundation.