Arkivets pleroma

Forfattere

  • Torsten Andreasen Københavns Universitet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v44i121.23742

Nøgleord:

archive, library, pleroma, automation, political organisation

Resumé

In 1956, on a commission from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alain Resnais made a short film about the French national library called Toute la mémoire du monde. The film performs a vertical movement from indiscernible form and prevalent darkness upon the face of the deep in the library cellars to the summits of institutional power in its domed view of the well-ordered rows of tables and chairs in the Labrouste reading room. This vertical axis is established and maintained by the horizontal library operations that promise to transform the library objects from chaotic heap to collective happiness, or what this article has called the promised movement from plethora to pleroma. Resnais’ film intervenes in an ongoing discourse about the possibility of archival pleroma, thinking machines and the possible beneficial consequences for human existence. But the question is whether such persistent happy belief in the fall of the very last practical obstacles for pleroma does not overlook the view from Resnais’ domed shot: The view indicating that sinister fantasies of the pleroma of knowledge persist in relation to fantasies of political organisation and that the guardians of the archive will always patrol the aisles of the reading room.

Forfatterbiografi

Torsten Andreasen, Københavns Universitet

Torsten Andreasen er ansat som post.doc. på Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, hvor han som del af projektet Affects, Interfaces, Events arbejder med epistemologiske og politiske konsekvenser af komplekse digitale vidensobjekter hinsides menneskelig perception, der således ikke kan eksistere uden for det computationelle interface. Han skrev phd-afhandling om forestillinger knyttet til digitale kulturarkivers potentiale for akkumulering og tilgængeliggørelse af al eksisterende viden og en deraf følgende ønskværdig politisk orden. Har har publiceret bredt om arkiver, det digitale og kulturarv. Relaterede artikler, f.eks: “Constructing the Contemporary via Digital Cultural Heritage.” (Fibreculture Journal, 2015) og ”Det digitale kulturarvsarkiv – medie og dispositiv.” (Radioverdener: Auditiv kultur, historie og arkiver, 2015).

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2016-06-21

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Andreasen, T. (2016). Arkivets pleroma. K&K - Kultur Og Klasse, 44(121), 153–170. https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v44i121.23742

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