Archives are not only an accumulation of historical records. In the context of the Anthropocene, preserved accounts unfold narratives that can help us to understand the present; narratives of extinction and immeasurable loss, but also of regenerative cultures and opportunities for anti-colonial reckoning via acknowledgment and repair. Archiving practices today sit amid contested interpretations that point towards many possible futures. In this Course, media anthropologist Shannon Mattern considers the practices that Anthropocene archivists might deploy to ensure that records and specimens acknowledge the shifting structures that engendered their very existence. Researchers Jason Ludwig and Tim Schütz speculate on the “death” of archives in the Anthropocene, and explore the potential of archival infrastructures to produce networks of solidarity around urgent environmental issues. And Catherine Russell, a researcher in sedimentology and the Anthropocene, proposes that an uncountable number of possibilities and stories can be read from our Anthropocenic landscape, revealing the ongoing challenge faced by archivists in stabilizing narratives that are inherently mutable and evolving.