New Forms Archive/Document/Policy Forum
From Scott Braun: For anyone who’s interested, here’s that Jane Jacobs essay I mentioned about the corporate profit model being implemented in the university system – Credentialing vs. Educating. Credentialing vs
From Setare S. Arashloo: Listening to Marvin [Taylor at Fales Library NYU], I recall an essay I read few months ago, named “A Past Not Yet Passed” about post memory in works of Mona Hatoum by Chrisoula Lionis. It might be interesting to look at. I’ve attached the PDF here. PostmemoryandMonaHatoum
“It is thus, in this domiciliation, in this house arrest, that archives take place. The dwelling, this place where they dwell permanently, marks this institutional passage from the private to the public, which does not always mean from the secret to the nonsecret. (It is what is happening, right here, when a house, the Freuds’ last house, becomes a museum: the passage from one institution to another.) With such a status, the documents, which are not always discursive writings, are only kept and classified under the title of the archive by virtue of a privileged topology…haunting implies places, a habitation, and always a haunted house. “
“The archive: if we want to know what this will have meant, we will only know tomorrow. Perhaps.”
Jacques Derrida: Archive Fever
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