An archival turn?
Submitted by florian on Wed, 2006-09-20 10:12.
In the first Joint Theory Session (JTS) of the Winter semester 2006 we are going to work on the notions of archiving. The title is borrowed by Kodwo Eshun who - in his text for the Academy book that just appeared these days - promotes an understanding of the archive neither in the Foucauldian "outside of our own language" nor in its Derridian elaboration as the "scene of domiciliation" nor in Agamben's "systems of relations between the said and the unsaid", but in the sense of "documented cinema" offered by director Francesco Rosi in his film "Salvatore Giuliano" from 1961. From the question of ownership and what it means to "own an image" we are going to discuss contemporary cultural strategies for imagining and imaging the world.
