This piece shows the research paper that accompanies the video, Shadow Monuments. It was produced from hundreds of pages of research notes and outlines. The paper’s organization is structurally reminiscent of archival classification systems that, though often rooted in Dewey, Cutter, Putnam or the Library of Congress’ own categorizations, are arbitrary in nature. By creating my own archival categories and organizing my works through them I hoped to underscore how classifications signify in a system external to the signified – what determines a category is trivial beyond this definition’s real-world implications – and in so doing question the narrow and oppressive structures inherent to taxonomy. The essay loosely follows these categories: cameral science, the archive and psychogeography, and shadows/archaeology/memory. This construction serves as a guide, or map, for writing that rectifies the archive’s rigidity through nonlinear, discursive fragmentation that mimics my interdisciplinary research style.