Absent Archive (a proposal)
Absent Archive
(a proposal)
Presence and absence constitute one of the basic dichotomies of the Western (philosophical) thought. Presence, as the meaning of the word suggests, is always about something dominant over something that is not there, not present.
In the same way, an archive, in the traditional sense of understanding, is hypomnesic; and hypomnēma according to Foucault [...]