Article: Electronic memory and deterritorialization
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https://doi.org/10.5007/%25xAbstract
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.Downloads
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2004-01-01
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