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Notes of "Archive and Aspiration" by Arjun Appadurai
Social memory/ collective memory
relation extenalities vs internalities
electronic archive (elettrolibrary): non-hierarchical, digital para-human features
Pierre Nora's "places of memory"
gap between neural locus of memory and its social location
Memory and the Archive
humanist perspective: archive, social tool for the work fro collective memory, neutral, even bening tool to keep the most significan portions of the past
archive expresses itself through the document
old notion of the archive is an empty entity that works as guardian to the document
UNESCO braodened the notion of the document (tesi chiara)
archive lives of its "pastness"
archive is sacralized as the site of the past of some cultural collectivity, not considered for its own materiality
humanist persp: memory vs desire
property of the archive: ideology of the trace (Marc Bloch)
"The archive is built on the accidents that produces traces"
All intentionalities come from the use we make of the archive, not from archive itself.
preciousness and moral authority of the archive derives from the accidents that produces its traces.
Foucault: archive is not innocent
evidence born out of nosological (disease's classification) gaze.
we need a new way to look at the archive
Foucault was too pessimistic
what's about personal archives?
documentation as intervention
archive as collective project
the archive as the product of the anticipation of collective memory.
archive as aspiration rather than recollection
electionic archive allows an active, open-ended collective building
communities that creates archives: new kind of community. reliance on the absence/impossibility of face-to-face
examples: expatriates, artists, MUDDS(?), chatrooms, etc.
inverted relationship between memory and connectivity: social collectives build connectivities out of memory, virtual collectivities do the opposite
memories out of connectivity
miming socialities, building whole identities, producing cloned socialities
prosthetic sociality
collective memory and the archive? seemengly 2 opposite faces
1. electonic devices restore link between archive and popular memory 2. electronic archive denaturalizes the relationship of memory and the archive, (juxtaposing one another I guess... not clear)
== Migration, Memory and Archival Agency
in "Modernity at Large": in globalization, and migration -> disjunctures between location, imagination and identity.
'moving images meet mobile audiences'
migrants as undocumented citizens
work of imagination -> capacity to aspire
how archive contribute to the built of migrant identity?
living archive
memory becomes hyper-valued for many migrants
memory of loss: confusion about what is lost and what is to be remembered
confusion -> constitution of different types of archive
critical role of media
define a widely plausible narrative
long-distance nationalism, Benedict Anderson
in the electronic age imagined communities are more "real" than natural ones
eelam.com (imagined country called eelam) Imagined country of the Tamil pop. of Sri Lanka
website is sacred geography, more than a sign for the real geography. A simulacrum, a self-sustained reality
reading together enriched by the web
memory vs public narrative
migrant archive is active and interactive
migrant archive: continuous and conscious work of the imagination (relation to the new society)
archive as a map
Aspiration and the Memory Gap
archive as a meta-intervention
archive about memory, but also about work of the imagination, social project
memory affiniy with desire (Eliot, Proust)