86 definitions
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Archive Fever
61 concepts · 86 definitions
- affirmation1
- after-the-fact1
- anarchive1
- archaeology1
- arche1
- archivability1
- archival violence1
- archive10
- archive fever3
- archivization1
- archon1
- archontic1
- assignation1
- circumcision1
- consignation2
- counter-signature2
- covenant1
- death drive2
- deferred obedience1
- delusion1
- devil1
- exergue1
- exorcism1
- fiction1
- future to come1
- haunting1
- historian2
- hopelessness1
- impression2
- jewish science2
- jewishness2
- justice2
- maternity1
- memory1
- messianic1
- Mystic Writing-Pad1
- oedipus complex1
- other1
- paternity1
- perhaps1
- phantom5
- positivism1
- psychoanalysis1
- repetition1
- repetition compulsion1
- repression2
- resurrection1
- science1
- secret2
- specter1
- spectral messianicity1
- suppression1
- survivance1
- thesis1
- time1
- transgenerational memory1
- truth1
- the uncanny1
- undoing1
- uniqueness1
- unity1
An Archive (n.) without archive: an imprint so singular it cannot be told apart from the step that made it, before impression and imprint separate.
An Archive (n.) takes place exactly where living memory breaks down: it is never memory itself but a prosthesis standing in for memory's failure.
An Archive (n.) is spectral from the start: neither present nor absent in the flesh, a trace that always points to another whose eyes can never be met.
The Archive (n.) is illuminated by an interpretation only when it writes itself into it: there is no meta-archive.
A Phantom (n.) is the dead father a scholar must learn to address, and the scholar of the future would dare to do it.
A Phantom (n.) does not respond, yet it speaks, like an answering machine whose voice outlives the moment it was recorded.
A Phantom (n.) sees without being seen: like Hamlet's father behind his visor, it watches from a face it never shows.
A Phantom (n.) can be sensitive to idiom: welcoming to one language, allergic to another.
Archive fever (n.) is being en mal d'archive: burning with a passion, never resting from the search for the archive right where it slips away.
Archive fever (n.) verges on radical evil: enlisting the infinite, the drive to keep turns into the drive to ruin.
Archive fever (n.) is the death drive inside the archive: the urge to keep everything is shadowed by the urge to destroy it.
The Death drive (n.) destroys its own archive in advance and leaves no document of its own, because it works in silence.
The Death drive (n.) returns only in disguise: its sole inheritance is an erotic simulacrum, masks of seduction, the lovely impressions we call beauty.
A Secret (n.) is the very ash of the archive: by definition there can be no archive of it.
A Secret (n.) burns without remains: what a man hid may be lost without even an ash.
Consignation (n.) is more than storage: it gathers signs into one corpus, so that nothing in an archive can separate or keep a secret.
Consignation (n.) is never without pressure: impression, repression and suppression are its figures.
Jewishness (n.) is a hyphen between itself and the future: to be open toward the future would be to be Jewish, and vice versa.
Jewishness (n.) is interminable even where Judaism is terminable: it survives Judaism as a heritage.
Repression (n.) is a way of archiving: you can archive a thing precisely by repressing it.
Repression (n.) always represses an impression: the German word belongs to the family of impression, which the French refoulement does not.
A Historian (n.) who steps aside to let the images speak has, by that very gesture, stopped being a historian.
A Historian (n.) who writes psychoanalysis from outside it loses the basic grammar of his own subject.