Tuesday, 12 April 2011

The Archive - Charles Merewether

Merewether claims that "the archive - official or personal - has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored and recovered".

Jacque Derrida's Archive Fever began as a lecture which discussed the following ideas in terms of the different ways in which the concepts of the archive have evolved.

They are broken down into six sections which discuss different elements of the idea of the archive.

Note
Exergue
Preamble
Foreword
Theses
Postscript

References

http://otherreality.wordpress.com/

Jacque Derrida's Archive Fever:A Freudian Impression. Trans Eric Prenowitz The University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London 1995

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