[...]le of thought
in order to sleep, he had to ="trms">imagine a direction he would turn his face, made of homogeneous darkness
“To think is to forget ="trms">differences, ="trms">generalize, make abstractions.”

Borges ‘homogeneous darkness’ is what we as forgetful immortals afraid of to turn to='qstn'>?
maybe the directions we sleep into, orientation to the ="trms">cosmos='qstn'>?!

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is archive ="trms">naturally and necessarily generated (out of regular form of activity)='qstn'>?

a (="trms">technologically implemented) beyond

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the drive to animate and mobilize; and the drive to conserve, to fix, and so forth, are ="trms">mutually constitutive for ="trms">modern imagery and media (from museum to archive)
archive performs a strange dialectics


to see the archive as a ="trms">technological rational ="trms">question, and engineering assignment, is to naively avoid the thinking about your own activity as a constructive activity 


depriving yourself of any tools to act
is archive a tool to act='qstn'>?


the ="trms">agency of an archive..


“other ways” of ="trms">composing='qstn'>?


marking its territory='qstn'>? how to make a map without giving way to the territory as an extension of the map='qstn'>?

='lgc'>["Angels Without Wings” A conversation between ="ppl">="ppl">Bruno ="ppl">="ppl">Latour and Anselm Franke='lgc'>]

the mechanical extension, Res extensa, the (descartian) extended thing, the visualizing ="trms">technologies, ="trms">technical drawings, has been so strong that the temptation so say “well, that's what the ="trms">world is really like” is very great, especially when your foreground is all of the engineering talents and engineering ="trms">skills that are necessary to assemble.



="large lg1" stl="font-size:117%"> to attribute strangeness...
what ‘will’ you in="trms">herit='qstn'>?
you have little idea of what will you in="trms">herit
(other way of not thinking about your activity now)

='strcls'>*the ="trms">question of future



='lgc'>[="ppl">Ronell='lgc'>]

false re="trms">membrance, displaced ="trms">memory, that actually repeatedly represses and disturbs ‘giving’

any re="trms">membrance involves forgetting
an official call for design an archive from khm also invoked that the institution is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to forget, announces institutional forgetting, and disavows re="trms">membrance

re="trms">member in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the lost-="trms">member, bringing my ="trms">member, the phalus (in English ‘="trms">member’ also means the male organ of copulation)


='lgc'>[="ppl">Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. “Das Gedächtnis.” ‘Enzyklopädie Der Philosophischen Wissenschaften Im Grundrisse’ 1817. Web.='lgc'>]

="ppl">Hegel makes a distinction of two modalities of ="trms">memory='lgc'>:
(1) ‘Erinnerung’ (="trms">internalized ="trms">memory, which is ="trms">situated in the heart), (it could also be ="trms">hallucinatory, might dependent on an ="trms">interiority that isn't there!);
(2 and this one concerns archive) ‘Gedechnis’ (="trms">technological ="trms">memory, a supplement or prosthetic device that reminds you. ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> it's mechanical, it's on the side of death and forgetting, a kind of ="trms">memory that needs to be prompted) (to choose the ="trms">technology of ="trms">writing/archive the subject of ="trms">memory is so screwed.)

='strcls'>***everything depends on the ways we re="trms">member!


='lgc'>[footnote on German ="trms">memory='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[blackwellreference.com, entry='lgc'>: “="trms">memory, recollection and ="trms">imagination"='lgc'>]
="ppl">Plato's doctrine that all learning is the recollection (anamnésis) of things previously known but later forgotten casts a shadow over the idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists’ uses of Erinnerung.

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is any act of re="trms">membrance also a traumatic experience='qstn'>? (="ppl">Freudian take on ="trms">memory) ='lgc'>-- archive is so “not” traumatic therefore a tool of amnesia. (archive in digital age='lgc'>: the oblivion of availability ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> media theory)
can we think of a non-traumatic ="trms">gesture of ="trms">socialization of ="trms">memory='qstn'>? or ="trms">memorial activity “has” to be violent in order to be re="trms">membered='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sublime) (like what ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali does, tattooing me, every time he tells me one of his ="trms">stories of trauma)
like i said before, “who” wants to re="trms">member='qstn'>?

(masculinity is ="trms">written all over this ="trms">anxiety-ridden re="trms">membrance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re='lgc'>+="trms">member, bringing back the ="trms">symbolically lost phallus='lgc'>: “="trms">member” means “the male organ of copulation” in English)

trauma makes available, brings back lost objects to the consciousness, in a psychoanalytical sense. is then the digital archive an absolute oblivion='qstn'>?

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='lgc'>[as ="ppl">Holderlin announces that the “remains” for which ="trms">poets are ="trms">responsible.='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">memory (don't let engineers build you archives! let the ="trms">poet be ="trms">responsible for whatever has “remained.”) ='lgc'>[this would be ="ppl">Holderlinian advice='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-inappropriable remainder(s)

="trms">memory/re="trms">member is sojourn


the importance of archive is today perhaps not in creating one but in ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading them.
='lgc'>--how many archive we still need to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and probe and consider, with concepts or para-concepts that we thought we had a hold on.

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being en="trms">folded is often a strategy for survival (='qstn'>?, ="ppl">="ppl">Marks)
(="ppl">Akira Mizuta ="ppl">Lippit='lgc'>:) things are not saved by being archived (Borgesian nightmare)
="trms">histories for which the ="trms">present is not ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what are those sites where ="trms">histories slip into latency='qstn'>?

(how not='qstn'>?) ='strcls'>***to enter a culture from outside='strcls'>*** (problem of the prophet, both Moses and ="ppl">Freud) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*everything depends on the ways we ‘bring’ things='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[bringing monotheism, destruction, etc.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> (="trms">social and ="trms">material) milieu thinking (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to think about Baten in Baten)

(art's will and the judgment of value that informs it...) Kunstwollen's desire to grow and ="trms">travel

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Ariella ="ppl">Azoulay='lgc'>]

() the op="trms">position between keeping and putting away, preservation and cancelation.

archive='lgc'>: the home of the dialectic of preservation and cancellation

...when fully lit and relatively flat

="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>: (archive) “is a ="trms">question of the future, the ="trms">question of the future itself, the ="trms">question of a ="trms">response, of a promise and of a ="trms">responsibility for tomorrow.”

archive's ="ppl">Foucauldian “space of appearance”

constructed as ex-territorial and as a receptacle (makhzan) for the ="trms">past

archive is not a fortress external to our ="trms">world, with us as its pilgrims

(the ="trms">ontological performance of filling a document)

(a constellation, aimed at distancing and disturbing us)

collecting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> grouping
extracting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sharing
cataloguing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> indexing and tagging

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(for ="ppl">Freud='lgc'>:) trauma ='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>=> ="trms">memory
(for ="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>:) “Man could never do without blood, torture, and sacrifices when he felt the need to create a ="trms">memory for himself.” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘ritual’ may be seen as a way to keep ="trms">memory alive without the experience of pain='qstn'>?
(="ppl">Bataille after ="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>:) ‘sacredness’='lgc'>: the revelation of continuity through the death of a discontinuous being

within the political art domain the “I feel your pain” has ="trms">sympathetic currency. one is punished by drawing public attention to their pleasures
(I feel your pleasures ='lgc'>=/=) “sense of pain” ='lgc'>[an asset of the artist='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==establishes='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> awareness of the existence of the body


processing is largely parallel, while, attention is largely serial

disciplines of the ="trms">modern subject
(in artistic work the unsolved issue remians='lgc'>:) ="trms">technniques for/of the external control

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="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] which spaciotemporal vectors are embeded in the archive, as a ="trms">modern feeling of arrow that thrusts forward ="trms">differentiating ="trms">past from the future, “archaic” from the “advanced”='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] archive produces a “yesterday”
a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous arrow of time that is constituted and announced
="prgrph">-how do we attend the ="trms">histories of implication and attachment='qstn'>?

futurity ='lgc'>[aghebat عاقبت, (even) akherat اخرت='lgc'>], the promis of the archive

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trauma='lgc'>: that which it won't tell its ="trms">story ='lgc'>=/= total recall
how can ="trms">history tell='qstn'>?
="trms">history, a compensatory device='qstn'>?

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gist
جان کلام
مراد

="large lg5" stl="font-size:152%"> ='lgc'>[="ppl">Geoffrey ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker='lgc'>]
http://www.ics.uci.edu/='lgc'>~gbowker/forget.html

Grand ="trms">Historiographer, Sima Qin (1994 ='lgc'>[ca 100BC='lgc'>]), ="trms">writing of the burning of the ="trms">books in 213BC, notes that the Chief Minister adviced the emperor that='lgc'>: Aall who possess ="trms">literature such as the Songs, the Documents, and the sayings of the hundred sch[...]