Almeida and Hoyer’s The Living Archive in the Anthropocene proposes the archive as a dynamic site where ecological crisis, cultural memory and political possibility are actively produced rather than merely recorded. The authors argue that dominant narratives of both the Anthropocene and the archive consolidate power: the former often reduces planetary crisis to a biophysical phenomenon, while the latter has historically privileged state authority, colonial memory and institutional neutrality. Against these closures, the living archive emerges as a participatory, place-based and generative counter-model, one that refuses nostalgia and instead treats archival practice as an intervention into social and ecological reality. Its significance lies in repositioning archives as spaces where communities may contest capitalism, environmental destruction, disciplinary silos and representational erasure. As a case study, the Interference Archive in Brooklyn demonstrates how this model operates materially: through open stacks, exhibitions, workshops, social-movement ephemera, collective labour and non-hierarchical governance, it preserves radical histories while enabling new forms of organising. The archive is therefore not a sealed container of the past, but a social ecology in which bodies, affects, artefacts and future-oriented solidarities interact. This proposition is especially urgent in the Anthropocene, where communities most affected by climate and economic violence are often excluded from the very narratives that claim to define planetary crisis. Ultimately, the living archive names a politics of memory that is anti-neutral, anti-extractive and emancipatory: it preserves not only what has happened, but what might still become possible.