Tabula Rasa
YEAR: 2025
2025
Partial Objects
Partial Objects are units of cultural value gathered, preserved, and made available for future research.
A Partial Object can be anything — a text, artwork, sound recording, image, artifact, fragment, or document — encountered and deemed significant enough to be held in common. Partial Objects are not defined by authorship, originality, or completion, but by their capacity to think with us.
Each Partial Object exists in both physical and digital form. The digital instance is archived and distributed via IPFS, ensuring durability, traceability, and resistance to loss or enclosure. The physical instance anchors the object in material reality, acknowledging that knowledge is not purely abstract, but embodied and situated.
A Partial Object is intentionally incomplete. It does not claim to represent a whole, a final truth, or a closed work. Its meaning emerges through proximity — through being placed alongside other objects, texts, and practices within the archive. In this way, the archive functions not as a canon, but as a field of relations.
Partial Objects may be produced by Tabula Rasa, contributed by collaborators, or found in the world and preserved. What matters is not origin, but care, context, and continued availability.
Partial Objects form the foundational layer of Tabula Rasa: a living archive designed to map experience, thought, and culture as they unfold — fragmentary, plural, and in motion.