Desire for presence, awareness of passage of time

"The desire for presence is the desire for the archive affect, for an awareness of the passage of time and the partiality of its remains, for an embodied experience of confronting what has been lost, and the mortal human condition.We seek to renew this affect again and again in order not only to know the past but also to feel it."
Jaimie Baron, The archive effect, Routledge, 2013, p.128.