User:Silviolorusso/thematic2/derrida-archive-fever
Notes of: Jacques Derrida, "Archive Fever, A Freudian Impression" (1995)
Etymology of the word archive:
“arche”: commencement and commandment, ontology and authority
taking the place/ having the place
two orders of orders: sequential and jussive
commencement: according to nature or to history
nomological -> commandment
latin: archivum, archium -> greek arkheion -> domicile of magistrates, the commanders.
Magistrates as documents’s guardians. they interpret the archive
Documents are classified under a certain privileged topology.
Intersection of the topological and the nomological
domiciliation of the archive: at once visible and invisible
the archontic power (magistrates) embed classification identification unification and .... consignation.
consigning: gathering together signs
coordination, ideal configuration
in archive: no separation, no heterogenity no secret
A science of the archive should include the theory of institutionalization.
Politics of the archive, crucial and embedded issue
“There is no political power without the control of the archive, if not of memory.”
Democratization: access origin participation to the archive
"Forbidden Archives" by Sonia Combe
repressed archive: power of the state over the historian
three hypotheses based on the impression left by the Freudian signature
EXERGUE
Exergue: cite before beginning, accumulating capital in advance, giving the order
institutive and conservative function
archival violence
archive/museum
2 places of inscription: printing and circumcision
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Freud prints something that is common knowledge, there is an intuition which works in silence, that destroys its own archive
the condition of effacing, its own traces
the death-drive is archiviolitic with some exceptions. Which ones?
The archiviolitic drive is never present in person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive
No archive without outside
death drive is no principle, it threatens archival desire, it is archive fever.
Evil to God as Jew to Aryan. Exculpation, sense-giving. Exteriority
Magic Mystic Pad
Role of archival machines
two orders of questions: 1. theoretical exposition of psychoanalysis 2. archivization of psychoanalysis .
“the archivable and the archiving of the archive”
how archival machines affect the content of the archive (in this case psychoanalysis)?
mechanical remarks: machines would affect not only secondary recording but events itselves (think about pseudoevents)
{documenting an event through different technologies, orality, written word, video, mail, chat, letter... even better: inventing devices with constrints to archive}
archivization is production
relation to technology
“what is no longer archived in the same way, is no longer lived in the same way”
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layering and signs of each layer