Abstract
This chapter considers the ways in which the archive haunts, and thus shapes, past, present and future cultural interpretations and re/presentations. Anderson proposes that archives are about forthcoming, as well as memories of the past. The chapter draws on Jacques Derrida’s assertion in Archive Fever that the archive in the modern age has transformed the entire public and private space of humanity. Derrida’s deconstructive approach to the archive was to question the dichotomy between the public and private, in order to understand the human impulse to preserve. This preservation is enacted through technology as well as tradition.
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Notes
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Michael Nass, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar, p. 133.
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Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, p. 68.
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Nass, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments, p. 134.
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Nass, p. 133.
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Nass, p. 134, p. 136.
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Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign, Vol II, p. 156.
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Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, p. 4, n. 1.
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Michael Nass, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments, p. 135.
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Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, p. 17.
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Marlene Manoff, ‘Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines’, p. 14.
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Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, p. 29.
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Derrida, Archive Fever, p. 36, p. 18.
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Michael Nass, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments, p. 127, p. 128.
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Nass, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments, p. 128.
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Derrida quoted in Nass, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments, p. 137.
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Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, p. 17.
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Derrida, Archive Fever, p. 68.
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Anderson, N. (2021). Hauntology: The Archive as Past and Future. In: Potts, J. (eds) Use and Reuse of the Digital Archive. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79523-8_7
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