Reading List
The Canonical Texts
Benjamin, W., 2002. The Arcades Project, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Derrida, J., 1998. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression 1st ed., University Of Chicago
Press.
Foucault, M., 2002. Archaeology of Knowledge 2nd ed., Routledge.
Introduction/ Archive Theory
Mike Featherstone, Archive, Theory, Culture & Society 23(2–3) 2007
Couze Venn, The Collection, Theory, Culture & Society 23(2–3) 2007
Couze Venn, Rubbish, the Remnant, Etcetera, Theory, Culture & Society 23(2–3) 2007
Carlos Drummond, Residue
Carolyn Steedman, Something She Called a Fever: Michelet, Derrida, and Dust from
Dust: The Archive and Cultural History, Rutgers University Press.
Louis Craven, From the Archivist's Cardigan to the Very Dead Sheep: What are Archives?
What are Archivists? What do They Do? in Craven, Louise, ed. What Are Archives?:
Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008.
Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. New York:
Zone Books, 2000.
The Work of the Archive in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Michael Moss, Opening Pandora’s Box: What is an Archive in the Digital Environment? In
Craven
ADILKNO/BILWET, (The Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge), The
Media Archive
Aaron Dinin, RE-READING DIGITAL ARCHIVES AS A FORM OF CULTURAL EXPRESSION
(2009)
Amitav Ghost, Chapter 1 of the Calcutta Chromosome
Rethinking Archives
André Lepecki, “After All, This Terror Was Not Without Reason”: Unfiled Notes on the
Atlas Group Archive, TDR: The Drama Review 50:3 (T191) Fall 2006.
BARBARA A. BIESECKER, OF HISTORICITY, RHETORIC: THE ARCHIVE AS SCENE OF
Invention, Rhetoric & Public Affairs - Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 124-131
The Properties of the Archive
Jae Emerling, Walter Benjamin and the gesture of Collecting, 2007
Benkler, Y., 2006. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom, New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press.
Matteo Pasquinelli, ‘The parasite of the commons’, Chapter 2 of Animal spirits: A
bestiary of the commons, Nai Publications, Amsterdam, 2008
Archives and the Moving Image
Zuzana Pick, Historicity and the Archive, from Constructing the Image of the Mexican
Revolution: Cinema and the Archive. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Hal Foster, The Archive without Museums, October, Vol. 77 (Summer, 1996), pp. 97-119
Doane, Mary Ann. The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the
Archive. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Serge Daney, Eleven Texts
Studio Baablek- Beirut. Torn down in april.
Azhar Hassan. Palestinian filmmaker living in amman.
Inscriptions of war- farocki.