http://whitneyannetrettien.com/whiki/index.php?title=Hamilton_et_al._2002&feed=atom&action=history Hamilton et al. 2002 - Revision history 2022-10-06T23:28:41Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.38.1 http://whitneyannetrettien.com/whiki/index.php?title=Hamilton_et_al._2002&diff=4188&oldid=prev Wtrettien: Created page with "== Achille Mbembe, "The Power of the Archive and its Limits" == Archive is both building and documents within it; “The status and the power of the archive derive from this..." 2019-09-25T20:16:00Z <p>Created page with &quot;== Achille Mbembe, &quot;The Power of the Archive and its Limits&quot; == Archive is both building and documents within it; “The status and the power of the archive derive from this...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Achille Mbembe, &quot;The Power of the Archive and its Limits&quot; == <br /> <br /> Archive is both building and documents within it; “The status and the power of the archive derive from this entanglement of building and documents.” (19)<br /> <br /> <br /> “Archives are the product of a process which converts a certain number of documents into items judged to be worthy of preserving and keeping in a public place, where they can be consulted according to well-established procedures and regulations.” (20)<br /> <br /> “Over and above the ritual of making secret, it seems clear that the archive is primarily the product of a judgement, the result of the exercise of a specific power and authority, which involves placing certain documents in an archive at the same time as others are discarded. The archive, therefore, is fundamentally a matter of discrimination and of selection, which, in the end, results in the granting of a privileged status to certain written documents, and the refusal of that same status to others, thereby judged ‘unarchivable’. The archive is, therefore, not a piece of data, but a status.” (20)<br /> <br /> Archive has a material status that does away with doubt and gives it status of proof; “The final destination of the archive is therefore always situated outside its own materiality, in the story that it makes possible.” (21)<br /> <br /> Also status is imaginary<br /> <br /> &quot;No archive can be the depository<br /> of the entire history of a society, of all that has happened in that<br /> <br /> society. Through archived documents, we are presented with pieces of<br /> <br /> time to be assembled, fragments of life to be placed in order, one after<br /> <br /> the other, in an attempt to formulate a story that acquires its coherence<br /> <br /> through the ability to craft links between the beginning and the<br /> <br /> end. A montage of fragments thus creates an illusion of totality and<br /> <br /> continuity. In this way, just like the architectural process, the time<br /> <br /> woven together by the archive is the product of a composition.” (21)<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Instituting imaginary of the archive “originates in this trade with death”<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 3 dimensions:<br /> <br /> “Struggle against the fragments of life being dispersed” (22)<br /> Act of burial, archive as sepulture<br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;Examining archives is to be interested in that which life has left<br /> <br /> behind, to be interested in debt. However, it is also to be preoccupied<br /> with debris. In this sense, both the historian and the archivist inhabit<br /> a sepulchre. They maintain an intimate relationship with a world<br /> alive only by virtue of an initial event that is represented by the act<br /> of dying. This being the case, writing history merely involves manipulating<br /> archives. Following tracks, putting back together scraps and<br /> debris, and reassembling remains, is to be implicated in a ritual<br /> which results in the resuscitation of life, in bringing the dead back to<br /> life by reintegrating them in the cycle of time, in such a way that<br /> they find, in a text, in an artefact or in a monument, a place to inhabit,<br /> from where they may continue to express themselves.” (25)<br /> <br /> &quot;To a very large<br /> <br /> extent, the historian is engaged in a battle against this world of spectres.<br /> <br /> The latter find, through written texts, a path to an existence<br /> <br /> among mortals - but an existence that no longer unfolds according<br /> <br /> to the same modality as in their lifetime. It may be that historiography,<br /> <br /> and the very possibility of a political community (polis), are<br /> <br /> only conceivable on condition that the spectre, which has been<br /> <br /> brought back to life in this way, should remain silent, should accept<br /> <br /> that from now on he may only speak through another, or be represented<br /> <br /> by some sign, or some object which, not belonging to any one<br /> <br /> in particular, now belongs to all.” (25)</div> Wtrettien
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