Notes Foucault & Derrida

Introduction - Foucault

• pg.4

1. history as written by the victors

• pg.5

1. paradigm of meta-historicity
2. ouvre: author's body of work
3. How history is analyzed, or not perceived as histories, but reactions, the mental state of the age rather than total history

• pg.7

1. Do not think that the paradigm of history (its permanence) and continuity hasn't mixed. The disciplines are always critiquing the intentions of both their documents as well as their critics
2. archive as curating a link to validate society

• pg.9

1. History is perceived as being more complex and so the history as a monument sees three consequences when reformatting total history into a much more general history (...?)

• pg.11

1. Making new history requires several methodological problems to be solved. In order for general history to be managed properly.

• pg. 12

1. if consciousness should survive, the only option would be to make it unanalyzable to historians/curators/interpreters

• pg. 13

1. History may never be total, but it can be progressive, an internal dynamic of development which drives a movement

• pg. 14

1. The subject is the historian

The Historical a priori and the Archive - Foucault

• pg. 127

1. The classical scientists used positivity when furthering their work, one of many historical a priori in science
2. Discourse through personal conviction --> Positivity: that everything is explainable, nothing is mystic

• pg.128

1. Histories as not generally translated, but regulated narrowly

• pg.131

1. diagnosis: the archive being the ruglator, not the translator, of history

Archive Fever: A freudian Impression - Derrida

• pg.9-10

1. archive no longer as an institution, but as a movement - Foucault

• pg.12

1. in its haste to preserve documents the archive hasn't critically considered what structures it should/shouldn't document and so it risks doing violence to the documents in the archiving process

• pg.13

1. Archive and Freud? Trippy...

• pg.14

1. archival death drive? --> Destination of memory

• pg.15

1. 'good' is decided upon what context archival violence deems it to be, as the archive decides what to remember and what to forget

• pg.16

1. the future depends on the future of archival planning

• pg.17

1. the current technical structure defines how the content is presented and handled. presentation of the same content will continue to change as the technical structure changes --> hence the content's context continues to change