The essays collected here form an ongoing body of research and writing developed alongside Clearance Archive.

Each text is a focused inquiry into material culture, labor, maintenance, and memory under late capitalism. Taken together, they articulate the conceptual framework that underpins the project—moving from foundational questions toward more specific examinations of method, ethics, and historical condition.

These essays are not intended as commentary on individual objects alone. They are written as a cumulative record: a way of thinking through how value, care, and meaning are produced, sustained, and remembered in the present.