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WE HAVE A USB FULL OF DOCUMENTS

There is no political power without control over the archive, if not over memory.

You can’t detach an archive from politics and the long history that formed it.

All contemporary phenomena must be understood contextually and historically, in relation to the power structures — or institutions — that shaped them, and are still shaping our understandings of ourselves, and of our times.
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  • The origin of "archive" is complex, and its meaning has constantly been evolving since it first arose.

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  • The concept of the archive is itself hard to archive
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  • Commencement/commandment, the chicken or the egg ?
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  • In the beginning, the word archive referred to Archons, who would file and store important documents in their own homes.
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  • The Archons were entrusted by the general public to store important documents.
  • They were guardians of these documents.
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  • The functions of hermeneutics are: "the functions of unification, of identification, of classification."
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  • The discourse produces the knowledge, the understanding of it.

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  • A concept doesn't exist until we say it does.
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  • The passage from the domestic to the *public = property + the edicts*.

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  • Still a private matter even though made public — still stored in private places.
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  • Archons are entrusted with the interpretation of the documents they were collecting — the documents that also determined the law.
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Topography: @@ -846,7 +838,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Could it be co-written?
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  • Communication is crucial.
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  • Language is never "just there", never neutral or innocent. Using words is taking actions.

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  • Communication is the responsibility of decision!

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  • Can someone avoid their responsibility by not communicating at all?
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Language:
Any set or system of such symbols
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Signal:
A gesture, action, or sound
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Semantic queries

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  • Let us not begin at the beginning, nor even at the noise. But rather at the word "noise"- and with the noise of so familiar a word.
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"Professional archivists have the power and authority to construct a dominant narrative on virtually any topic. Unfortunately, the archival world is built on a legacy of colonialism, appropriation, and community disenfranchisement. The power imbalance between archivists and the marginalized communities they often document leads to the dissemination of inaccurate and harmful accounts." - Reference: + Reference:

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  • Beacons as means of communication (flags, cross barriers of sound).
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  • through all language barriers ?

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  • language of many portals = philosophical.

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  • Symbols change and evolve : Are they part of language or a wander of communication ?
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  • Multiple communication systems that make up one great machine.
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  • Redundancy in transmitting is a way to reduce noise in a message.

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  • Market information is most efficient, for its redundancy
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Message transmission between two stockbrokers’ offices, for example:
  • There may exist at the information source just two possible messages: BUY or SELL.
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    • If the signal is distorted in such a way as to change SELL to SELF, as there are only two possible messages, BUY and SELL, there is sufficient redundancy in the spelling of the words that even if it did read SELF, the information would still be clear.
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Corpora Viva

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Decay is the only reality, the only true state or condition.
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+ When ideas decay, history is boud to repeat itself.
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+ An idea must be embodied, to be externalized to be passed onto different levels and states. Does the decay of the body necessarily lead to the decay of the thought? How do you counter the loss — or censorship — of the materiality that constitutes a body.
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+ You can’t prevent a body from decaying, but you can engage in the perpetuation of its the intellect.
+ Intellect can remain through other bodies.
+ Intellect can be recorded, can be documented.
+ How can a soul remain when it is substracted from its body?
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Corpora Viva

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Decay is the only reality, the only true state or condition.
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- You can’t prevent a body from decaying, but you can engage in the perpetuation of its the intellect.
- Intellect can remain through other bodies.
- Intellect can be recorded, can be documented.
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"The living and the dead at his command, Were coupled, face to face, and hand to hand, Till, chok’d with stench, in loath’d embraces tied, The ling’ring wretches pin’d away and died."
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  • This is not fiction, it is a historical memory. @@ -2656,7 +2654,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • This outlandishly atrocious form of punishment was first attributed to Mezentius, the Etruscan King. @@ -2665,12 +2663,12 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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"In the sixteenth century, the horror of this torture is expressed, once again, by a popular emblem called Nupta Contagioso showing a woman being tied to a man plagued by syphilis, at the King’s order."

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  • It is horrific, but also kind of beautiful - why? @@ -2688,7 +2686,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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Alchemy:
A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting.

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" […] for the Etruscans—executioners gifted with metaphysical literacy and alchemical ingenuit—it signalled an ontological exposition of the decaying process which had already started from within. [R]egistered decay was merely a superficial symptom of an already founded decay, decay as a pre-established universal chemistry."

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"Aristotle says that we are punished much as those were who once upon a time, when they had fallen into the hands of Etruscan robbers, were slain with elaborate cruelty; their bodies, the living [corpora viva] with the dead, were bound so exactly as possible one against another: so our souls, tied together with our bodies as the living fixed upon the dead."

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Division of labor

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  • The soul needs a body to act out. @@ -2843,7 +2847,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Apply this process to any possible idea: @@ -2852,7 +2856,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Mechanisms of how an Idea undergoes the process of decaying. @@ -2881,7 +2885,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • A soul within a body mended by an intellect. @@ -2890,7 +2894,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Intellect exists in between the states of being and non-being. @@ -2899,7 +2903,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • It exists because it is not tied to a bodily existence. @@ -2908,7 +2912,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • By expression, it becomes more material. @@ -2928,7 +2932,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Is the Noumenon a phenomenon without a body? @@ -2937,7 +2941,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Something that remains as a memory? As history? @@ -2946,7 +2950,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • What is the ontological link between the archive and these ideas? @@ -2969,7 +2975,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • The decay of the material, the decay of the body. @@ -2978,7 +2984,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Does the decay of the body necessarily lead to the decay of the thought? @@ -2996,7 +3002,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Intellect can be recorded, can be documented. @@ -3023,7 +3029,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale


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  • Ideas that decay = History repeating itself. @@ -3032,7 +3038,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Does history have to repeat itself? @@ -3041,7 +3047,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • You can’t prevent a body from decaying, but how can you engage in the perpetuation of its the intellect? @@ -3050,7 +3056,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale

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  • Extracting the content from the body, only the intellect survives. @@ -3059,7 +3065,7 @@ https://pad.xpub.nl/p/HTML_Finale


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Ether2HTML

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Proletarians of the <redacted>, unite!

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How does the need for emancipatory politics translate into different forms of expression and organization? How can the tangential dynamics of these different forms successfuly align under an overarching moniker, while still maintaining their locality, specificity and urgency? Does the potential of an inclusive communist project need to be reached by overcoming notions such as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism and the like?

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