Archive Fever - Derrida, Steedman, & the Archival Turn

Archive Fever is a text by the French poststructuralist, Jacques Derrida. Influenced by Freud and psychoanalysis, Derrida asks what should be included in archives, where there are gaps, and what a Freudian archive might look like. The historian Carole Steedman reflects on the historian in the archive; what are they looking for, where are the beginnings, how can you possibly do the dead justice?
Derrida cites Arkhe as being both ‘commencement’ and ‘commandment’ - both a place - an original position, a beginning, a source, and a command, an authority, an order.
Archives are the sites of the great chain, the contract between the living and the dead, the locus of power and authority.
arkhe also comes from arkheion - a house, a dwelling, a residence. A house presumes inclusion and exclusion too. Who has the right to enter? To make the law? To interpret the archive? Who has the last word?
Historian Arlette Farge has written that ‘Archives are neither faithful to reality nor totally representative of it; but they play their part in this reality, offering differences and alternatives to other possible statements.’
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  • @zealien
    @zealien8 ай бұрын

    I don't know why but I come back to this video every month, in the middle of the night.

  • @clickaccept
    @clickaccept4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Derrida couldn't find the book he was looking for at the local library.

  • @oliverconant4516

    @oliverconant4516

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol

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    @bahruzsamadov85994 жыл бұрын

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  • @luismanuel2612
    @luismanuel26124 жыл бұрын

    "There is no archive without a place of consignation, without a technique of repetition, and without a certain exteriority. No archive without outside..."/Derrida

  • @cameronmclennan942
    @cameronmclennan9424 жыл бұрын

    Great work as always, thank you. Made me think of modern archives and how the historian's relationship with them may change if in the long-term future they ever get access to all the youtube, facebook, google, twitter archives. They could make a (not particularly interesting) 10-part documentary series about almost anyone that lived.

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    @thesunthatneversets45794 жыл бұрын

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  • @nelsonphillips
    @nelsonphillips4 жыл бұрын

    It starts with a mark. sensing, filtering, amplifying. positive feedback, negative feedback. The mark enters a circuit, a mechanism, a structure. It is now not just a mark but is now a part of something. Growing, fading. becoming something bigger, maintaining something bigger, reducing something bigger. The mark is now among other marks. Marks sensing, filtering, amplifying other marks. including, excluding other marks. A system, a cascade, momentum. Now sustained through movement of marks. Controlling how, what and where a mark can change something. The power of the mark is that the marks have movement. How much movement and how long can a marks movement influence. Will the mark just bounce off? Will the mark stick? How has the mark entered? Will the mark amplify that which has come before? A mark has entered.

  • @CanadianRevolution27
    @CanadianRevolution274 жыл бұрын

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  • @Anarchivist343
    @Anarchivist3434 жыл бұрын

    As an archival studies student I suggest you develop this series by including the work of Terry Cook and other archival theorists who respond to Derrida's questions.

  • @alifibrahim5064

    @alifibrahim5064

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who else would this be on top of terry cook? Wondering who today is the foremost thinkers on archives are

  • @francessngaboh-smart4380

    @francessngaboh-smart4380

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alifibrahim5064 Verne Harris at par though.

  • @Anarchivist343

    @Anarchivist343

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alifibrahim5064 Michelle Caswell has a good literature review. escholarship.org/content/qt7bn4v1fk/qt7bn4v1fk.pdf

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    @johnarbuckle26194 жыл бұрын

    Always a pleasure

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    @djisuruperera4520 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video, thank you so much!

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    @ieatlolz4 жыл бұрын

    Your work is criminally underrated

  • @mackmaster100
    @mackmaster1004 жыл бұрын

    Archives are our main collective memories, stored to be looked through in the future in order to bring back information that gives us details and nuance of what was before.

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    @michalbartosz48784 жыл бұрын

    Amazing stuff mate, thanks a lot.

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    @eileenlittle4833 Жыл бұрын

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    @fallowfieldoutwest4 жыл бұрын

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  • @TheModernHermeticist
    @TheModernHermeticist4 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff, thanks.

  • @Minglesmoot
    @Minglesmoot4 жыл бұрын

    My favourite philosopher

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    @michaelmcgovern78004 жыл бұрын

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    @thinker29254 жыл бұрын

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    @aporeticist4 жыл бұрын

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    @Enzaio4 жыл бұрын

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    @msmelanie.4 жыл бұрын

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    @drake16364 жыл бұрын

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    @MrPoposiado Жыл бұрын

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  • @TailaIdzi
    @TailaIdzi4 жыл бұрын

    Hello! Could you please post here the references for the quotes from Arlete Farge?

  • @MultiTeliot
    @MultiTeliot4 жыл бұрын

    An excellent essay. I'm sorry if it's stated elsewhere and I've missed it, but does anyone know what the piano piece is?

  • @mahmoudelhossieny

    @mahmoudelhossieny

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes please anyone?

  • @Anarcath
    @Anarcath4 жыл бұрын

    Everything is always-already.

  • @rereloluwaakintayo3872
    @rereloluwaakintayo38724 жыл бұрын

    Everyting that was put into archive stays and there Will be more spaced added to retain even more

  • @mirnablabla1
    @mirnablabla13 жыл бұрын

    Is your voice-over available as text? Would be awesome to read it through again:)

  • @sebastiaankampers6651
    @sebastiaankampers66514 жыл бұрын

    The archive as the extension of our memory... or our memory as the extension of the archive ? Atleast both are hoovering somewhere between emotions and rationality, ... as a fever dream where you suddenly wake up from , ... thankfull that its over but nostalgic about its true nature.

  • @mahmoudelhossieny
    @mahmoudelhossieny3 жыл бұрын

    Whats the piano music piece in the background please?

  • @marchdarkenotp3346
    @marchdarkenotp33464 жыл бұрын

    oh my god oh my god it's archive feverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • @gonzogil123
    @gonzogil1234 жыл бұрын

    8:30min Kinda, but this implies that you are not dealing with finite entities, that there are not (justified) relevant questions, and within those relevant questions, there are some more important than others to answer specific questions.

  • @hyacinth1320
    @hyacinth13203 жыл бұрын

    Stares in *Assualt on the Truth* written by the former director of the Freud archive.

  • @Phi792
    @Phi7923 жыл бұрын

    leaving a comment for the algorithm! :p

  • @gonzogil123
    @gonzogil1234 жыл бұрын

    7:00 The general category seems to be Archive, and one of its particular manifestations, in this instance, the biography. Psychoanalysis aims to be a scientific theory so it should be criticized in order to get better answers to the questions it poses. Sure, you may do a biography, or, a genealogy, Nietzschean, or, historically materialistic, actually Lionel Baily, and Darien Leader do point to biographical aspects of Russell (in Darien Leader´s case) where analytical observations are revealed. Lionel Baily is more systematic in explaining the modes of early identification with one´s parent's profession, or, the opposite of what they do. I do not think it makes psychoanalysis wrong by necessity if analytical phenomena is found in the Everyday Life of Freud. If it does it may advance the theory. If ideological, or, symptomatical aspects of the theory appear they should be looked for: sure. Analysts talk about this very same thing.

  • @Anarcath
    @Anarcath4 жыл бұрын

    I’ll n’y a pas hors de text.~Jacques Derrida

  • @robertjordan355

    @robertjordan355

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is no inset

  • @vrixphillips
    @vrixphillips4 жыл бұрын

    that was beautiful *sniff*

  • @Anarcath
    @Anarcath4 жыл бұрын

    Derrida is the most important philosopher in the entire tradition of Western metaphysics. At least for me.

  • @TheOriginalGankstar

    @TheOriginalGankstar

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'd say Deleuze from the last century or so.

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    @Luminous134 жыл бұрын

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  • @Ben-vf8jv
    @Ben-vf8jv3 жыл бұрын

    What is the song in the background?

  • @visavou
    @visavou4 жыл бұрын

    we remember because we are all working to solve np versus p problem type, and solution analysis under limited scope along time.