<h1class="title-element> WE HAVE A USB FULL OF DOCUMENTS </h1>
<h1class="title-element"> WE HAVE A USB FULL OF DOCUMENTS </h1>
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There is no political power without control over the archive, if not over memory.<br><br>You can’t detach an archive from politics and the long history that formed it.<br><br> 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.
"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."
"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." <br>
"Haunted by the unusually philosophical insinuations of this punishment as well as its subtle imagery, to which human imagination cannot help contributing,…"
<h4>Proletarians of the <redacted>, unite!</h4>
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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?
Max Lehmann
5 years ago