On the Anarchivation. A Concatenation from Walter Benjamin

Authors

  • Márcio Seligmann-Silva Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Keywords:

anarchivation, culture as archive, collection

Abstract

The article makes an analyses of a series of artworks, specially those made after de Second World War, as a way to propose the archive as a key idea to understand what happens with our culture today. In the 20. century the melting process of the central archive of the western though opened a period of recollection of the archives. The biological turn has enthroned the notion of genetic inheritance and of reinstatement of the inherited archives. On the other hand, the cybernetic turn has generalized speeches about memories, archives, recording, erasing, and deleting information. Many artists, in this landscape, since the Romanticism, have been developing combat strategies against the monological procedures of archiving and of the archival science: they became anarchivists.

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Published

2016-11-05

How to Cite

Seligmann-Silva, M. (2016). On the Anarchivation. A Concatenation from Walter Benjamin. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 7(7), 40–59. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/1077