Article: Electronic memory and deterritorialization

Authors

  • Jonatas Ferreira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Aécio Amaral Jr Goldsmiths College - University of London.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Abstract

In the following essay, departing from Derrida’s formulations on memory and the archive, we try to understand the political meaning of experiencing and constituting an electronically storable and accessible form of memory. Accepting that supports of memory are, not only means for conserving it, but the very conditions of elaborating what should and could be recalled, we maintain that the digitalization of memory is a phenomenon of major importance of our time. Dealing with the contribuition of authors like Virilio, Bergson, Benjamin, Marcuse, Adorno, we propose a theoretical framework for reflecting about this transformation. Opposing those who sustain that the digitalization of memory means the end of poltics, absolute deterritorialization, the mathematization of reality, we affirm the existence of non intended political horizons that emerge from inside the very totalizing ambition of the electronic archive. Key-words: Memory; electronic archive; politics; logocentrism.

Author Biographies

Jonatas Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

possui graduação em Economia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1984) , especialização em School Of Public Policy Development Adm Group pela University of Birmingham (1993) , mestrado em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1993) e doutorado em Sociologia pela University of Lancaster (1998) . Atualmente é Professor Adjunto da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Tem experiência na área de Sociologia , com ênfase em Outras Sociologias Específicas. Atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Modernidade, Julgamento, Perplexidade.

Aécio Amaral Jr, Goldsmiths College - University of London.

Professor Assistente do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Graduado em Ciências Sociais (1997) e mestre em Sociologia (2000) pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, e doutorando em Sociologia pelo Goldsmiths College, Universidade de Londres, Inglaterra. Bolsista de Doutorado Pleno no Exterior do CNPq. Áreas de atuação: teoria sociológica contemporânea; sociologia da tecnologia; teoria crítica e pós-estruturalismo.

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Published

2004-01-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 4 (2004)

Section

Special Issue 1 - Sociology and sociologists in Latin America: research, teaching, and interdisciplinarity in contemporary context

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