The Virtualization of the Archive

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Abstract

The archive, despite its location in the past as a space apart for reserve and protection from that which cannot have free course in experience, corresponding to a specific institution and therefore being controlled, has suffered a dislocation and disseminates throughout experience. The decisive phenomenon is one of increasing indifferentiation between archive and life, between action already taken and action to be done, between the ephemeral and the enduring. This essay problematizes the archive at the moment of its digital and electronic transformation. Beyond preservation or reproduction of the remains or fragments of an action already completed, the archive seems to be concerned with the “first principleness” of experience, but also with the materiality on which all action is based. This formulation suggests something disturbing. An archival mediality, only effective through an immediate connectivity, presents a state of traceability (and repetition) of everything.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPhilosophy of Engineering and Technology
EditorsHelena Mateus Jerónimo
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages243-261
Number of pages19
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-14630-5
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-14632-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Publication series

NamePhilosophy of Engineering and Technology
Volume43
ISSN (Print)1879-7202
ISSN (Electronic)1879-7210

Keywords

  • Actual
  • Archival
  • Experience
  • Materiality
  • Memory
  • Virtual

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