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 [...]
Anatomy of Latin America: Forty Years After, by Gašper Kralj
First published by Desinformemonos
The following text is an introduction to the Slovenian edition of Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America, translated by Gašper Kralj and Tina Malič.
To publish Eduardo Galeano is to publish the enemy: the enemy of lies, indifference, above all of forgetfulness. Thanks to him our crimes will be remembered. His tenderness [...]
Imagination beyond representation, Bojana Piškur, REC
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. How does one start at the beginning, if things happen before they actually happen? (Clarice Lispector)
For some time now we have been considering questions related to the political potential of a work of art, or, put [...]