In Temporality and the Multimedia Archive, Ernst’s arguments and contemplations in Underway to the Dual System and Archives in Transition are introduced. It seems that both will discuss archiving of new digital media and the dynamics that stem from the inherent differences in digital vs. analog artistic works. In Underway to the Dual System, I thought an interesting argument being made was the idea that an archive was on longer defined by it’s content but rather it’s connections and how the content is linked. I think this idea doesn’t necessarily work completely when you think about the ephemerality of web-based media and the whole purpose of Internet archives that we discussed this week. Later in the chapter, they go to refer to the Internet as a “transarchive” and I believe this distinction allows their previous argument to breath. I thought the sentence “what makes the difference between a memory and an archive is an organized archive barrier” was very interesting. It was really interesting reading Archives in Transition in a time where we’ve had high speed internet and streaming media for enough time that it’s ingrained in our society. While reading this section, I had to take a step back and recall a time when transmission media was non-existent or a novelty.