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 [...]
Beyond factories of knowledge: for a world without capitalist exploitation, by Tjaša Pureber, REC
The text was published in the frame of The Second Summit of the Free/Slow University of Warsaw at
http://www.wuw2010.pl/aktualnosci.php?lang=eng
»In factories and on universities – resist the dictatorship of the capital!«
Above written sentence was one of the slogans that marked the 2007 student uprising in Slovenia against neoliberal reforms of higher education, which has since been [...]
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 [...]
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