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deridda extra apo analisi (the nature of an archive is to be both authoritarianly transparent and authoritatively concealed. ISOS O DERRIDA TO KANI AFTO GIATI INE STO TELOS TIS ZOIS TU K THELI NA ANIHNEVI TO PIO NOIMATODOTUMENO TIS IPARXIS TUS, DYING..K KITAEI TI AFISE PISO TU

ARHCIVE IS A VERY SUBJECTIVE THING also bevause of the systematics of arhcive

Derrida Archive fever

Let us not begin at the beginning, nor even at the archive. But rather at the word "archive"-and with the archive of so familiar a word. Arkhe we recall, names at once the commencement and the commandment.(history-things commence and law-there where men and gods command+order+place)

We have there two orders of order: sequential and jussive

"archive," its only meaning, comes to it from the Greek arkheion: initially a house, a domicile, an address, the residence of the superior magistrates, the archons, those who commanded. αρχειο και εξουσια αρχειο και ελεγχος

these people who command possess the right to make or to represent the law. On account of their publicly recognized authority, it is at their home, in that place which is their house (private house, family house, or employee's house), that official documents are filed

They do not only ensure the physical security of what is deposited and of the substrate. They are also accorded the hermeneutic right and competence. They have the power to interpret the archives

It is thus, in this domiciliation, in this house arrest, that archives take place The dwelling, this place where they dwell permanently, marks this institutional passage from the private to the public, which does not always mean from the secret to the nonsecret, the documents, which are not always discursive writings, are only kept and classified under the title of the archive by virtue of a privileged topology. They inhabit this unusual place, this place of election where law and singularity intersect inprivilege This archontic function is not solely topo-nomological. It does not only require that the archive be deposited somewhere, on a stable substrate, and at the disposition of a legitimate hermeneutic authority. The archontic power, which also gathers the functions of unification, of identification, of classification, must be paired with what we will call the power of consignation. By consignation, we do not only mean, in the ordinary sense of the word, the act of assigning residence or of entrusting so as to put into reserve (to consign, to deposit), in a place and on a substrate, but here the act of consigning through gathering together signs

Consignation aims to coordinate a single corpus, in a system or a synchrony in which all the elements articulate the unity of an ideal configuration. In an archive, there should not be any absolute dissociation, any heterogeneity or secret which could separate (secernere), or partition, in an absolute manner

A science of the archive must include the theory of this institutionaliza- tion, that is to say, at once of the law which begins by inscribing itself there and of the right which authorizes

Order is no longer assured

EXERGUE According to a proven convention, the exergue plays with citation. To cite before beginning is to give the key through the resonance of a few words, the meaning or form of which ought to set the stage. In other words, the exergue consists in capitalizing on an ellipsis.. In accumulating capital in advance and in preparing the surplus value of an archive.

archival violence

It is thus the first figure of an archive, because every archive, we will draw some inferences from this, is at once institutive and conservative. Revolutionary and traditional. An eco-nomic archive in this double sense: it keeps, it puts in reserve, it saves, but in an unnatural fashion, that is to say in making the law (nomos) or in making people respect the law

These citations concern and bind between themselves, perhaps secretly, two places of inscription: printing and circumcision.

In sum, this is a lot of ink and paper for nothing, an entire typographical volume, in short, a material substrate which is out of all proportion, in the last analysis, to "recount" (erzahlen) stories that everyone knows.

There is no archive without aplace of consignation, without a technique of repetition, and without a certain exteriority. No archive without outside.

Let us never forget this Greek distinction between mneme or anamnesis on the one hand, and hypomnema on the other. The archive is hypomnesic

s: if there is no archive without consignation in an externalplace which assures the possibility of memorization, of repetition, of reproduc- tion, or of reimpression, then we must also remember that repetition itself, the logic of repetition, indeed the repetition compulsion, remains, according to Freud, indissociable from the death drive

the archive works a priori against itself