Working outside traditional bureaucratic structures, animal activists have a long history of creating, managing and using records in radical ways to bring the suffering of animals to society’s attention. Today’s online platforms enable animal activism on a networked scale, with unprecedented reach and immediacy of impact, but also with risks and challenges. This article presents findings from a critical case study of the radical recordkeeping of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), a US-based animal liberation group. The case study explores the performative role recordkeeping plays in the group’s animal activism and advocacy, and the challenge of ensuring the longevity of an archival record of its activities and their impact. It is framed by Records Continuum Theory and illustrates the benefits of applying a Records Continuum lens to researching radical recordkeeping contexts. The paper reports on the research findings of the case study, including the vital role recordkeeping plays as a form of “strategic witnessing” for the activities of DxE, as well as in developing the DxE community and communicating its mission to the public. It discusses the challenges faced by DxE in preserving their archives into the future through integrating archiving into their current radical recordkeeping processes, Continuum-style, and addressing the risks associated with using online collaborative platforms for recordkeeping and archiving. Overcoming these challenges will ensure that current recordkeeping plays its part in DxE’s animal activism, and that in the future records of continuing value take their place among the multiple narratives of society in the archival multiverse.

在传统的官僚结构之外工作，动物活动家在以激进的方式创建、管理和使用记录以引起社会关注动物的痛苦方面有着悠久的历史。今天的在线平台在网络规模上实现了动物行动主义，具有前所未有的影响力和即时性，但也存在风险和挑战。本文介绍了美国动物解放组织 Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) 激进记录保存的关键案例研究的结果。该案例研究探讨了记录保存在该组织的动物行动主义和倡导中所扮演的表演角色，以及确保其活动及其影响的档案记录长期存在的挑战。它由记录连续体理论构成，并说明了将记录连续体镜头应用于研究激进的记录保存上下文的好处。该论文报告了案例研究的研究结果，包括记录保存作为 DxE 活动的“战略见证”形式以及在发展 DxE 社区和向公众传达其使命方面所起的重要作用。它讨论了 DxE 通过将归档整合到他们当前激进的记录保存流程中（Continuum 风格）以及解决与使用在线协作平台进行记录保存和归档相关的风险，将档案保存到未来所面临的挑战。克服这些挑战将确保当前的记录保存在 DxE 的动物行动主义中发挥作用，