Some stray thoughts on gap-filling. Take them for what they are
1. Gaps in archives are not like rips in clothing; they don't have a well defined and wholly known, or in the broadest sense wholly knowable, shape or extent. You can't cut a patch for them or fill them with putty and smooth them over.
Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
Ted McCormick
Peter Whitewood
Go argue with Americans about it, I don’t care, this is about survey responses
