Lost in the Archives
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Author
Contributions
- Rebecca Comay (Editor) - Contributor
Publication
2002-09-15 - Alphabet City
Language
English
Word Count
160,000 words, Guess
Page Count
640 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11799906M
- ISBN-139780973055009
- ISBN-100973055006
- OCLC Control Number51498820
- Goodreads945299
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- LibraryThing3140717
Classifications
- LCCPN56.M44 L678 2002
Description
There is a crisis in the archives. Contemporary protocols for archiving and accessing increasingly vast amounts of materials present unprecedented possibilities and problems for the production, classification, and use of knowledge. Surveying the jagged edge between memory and forgetting, revealing the force and scope of some of memory's losses -- its technical drop-outs, its lacunae, burials, omissions, eclipses, and denials -- Lost in the Archives explores the thesis that memory is productively read from its failures and absences, in the not-yet or impossible archives, in archive fevers and dementias, in all the places archives cannot or have not looked. Like a purloined letter, the shelved and forgotten book wields its most virulent power precisely in being unread. Unread, if not indeed illegible, what is lost in the archive may prove to exert the most shocking force.
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