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    This document discusses different perspectives on the concept of the archive from philosophers such as Foucault, Agamben, Ricoeur, and Sekula. Foucault viewed the archive as shaping our relation to the past and construction of history. Agamben argued the relation between sayable and unsayable becomes one between possibility and impossibility of speech for catastrophic events. Ricoeur saw the archive, document, and trace as measuring the relation between past and present. Sekula explored how the archive gains authority by establishing regulatory systems that codify and criminalize individuals.

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    This document discusses different perspectives on the concept of the archive from philosophers such as Foucault, Agamben, Ricoeur, and Sekula. Foucault viewed the archive as shaping our relation to the past and construction of history. Agamben argued the relation between sayable and unsayable becomes one between possibility and impossibility of speech for catastrophic events. Ricoeur saw the archive, document, and trace as measuring the relation between past and present. Sekula explored how the archive gains authority by establishing regulatory systems that codify and criminalize individuals.

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    This document discusses different perspectives on the concept of the archive from philosophers such as Foucault, Agamben, Ricoeur, and Sekula. Foucault viewed the archive as shaping our relation to the past and construction of history. Agamben argued the relation between sayable and unsayable becomes one between possibility and impossibility of speech for catastrophic events. Ricoeur saw the archive, document, and trace as measuring the relation between past and present. Sekula explored how the archive gains authority by establishing regulatory systems that codify and criminalize individuals.

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    The Archive

    1. In ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge’ (1969), the study of the archive was


    compared by Michael Foucault to the practice of learning about the past
    through its material remains. The ‘archaeologist of knowledge’ aims to
    recover and reconstruct the archive, to reveal how it shapes or relation to
    the past and the construction of historical meaning. For Foucault the
    archive governs what is said or unsaid, recorded or unrecorded. His
    analogy with archaeology is more expansive than Freud’s, discerning an
    underlying structure governing the thought systems and values of any
    given society and the conditions enable, a history to be written depend
    upon the definition of the archive.

    In response to Foucault, Giorgio Agamben argues that in light of the


    phenomenon of the testimonial which has borne witness to catastrophic
    events such as those of the Nazi era, there are conditions in which the
    relation between the sayable and the unsayable becomes a relation
    ‘between a possibility and an impossibility of speech’ (Remnants of
    Auschwitz: The Witness and the archive, 1989).

    2. We may ask: What temporal zone does the document occupy, what if
    its relation to the past, to the present and even to the future? Is what is
    materially present, visible or legible adequate to an event that has passed
    out of present time?

    The second section, ‘Inscriptions’, examines ways in which the law of the
    archive has been inscribed in definitions of the document and the body.
    For Paul Ricoeur (‘Archives, Documents, Traces’, 1978), the concept of the
    archive is synonymous with the trace and the document: in each we are
    able to measure not only a relation between the past and present, but
    between the event and evidence of its occurrence and between the fabric
    of everyday life and its representation.

    3. While Ricoeur focuses on the writing of history, Allan Sekula explores


    how the archive gains its authority through establishing a science or
    regulatory system that codifies the body in terms of equivalence. He
    examines the tensions in nineteenth-century photography, in particular
    photographic portraiture. This followed aesthetic conventions in presenting
    the bourgeois self, yet also, drawing on the sciences of physiognomy and
    phrenology, became an instrument for marking and criminalizing the
    individual and social body. Photography became harnessed as an
    apparatus of the state, facilitating the ‘arrest of the referent’. Sekula
    draws on Water Benjamin’s observations on photography, especially his
    remarks on photographers such as August Sander, whose protraits
    σελ. 13: Ο Jacque Derrida επιστρέφει στο έργο του Freud «A note upon
    the Mystic writing-pad», συνδέοντάς το με το πρόσφατο κείμενό του
    «Beyond the pleasure Principle» (1920), προκειμένου να εξετάσει την
    αρχειακή ώθηση, σε σχέση με αυτό που είδε ο Freud, την αδιαw

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