Archive

Londinium
$14.98
I discovered Archive recently, and since I can't stop listen to this Band. This Album is one their best creations , along with "You all look the same to me" which has a different sound . Londinium takes you throught a nice and wonderful music experience , far from the regular Emmy award - hollywood -like bands ."Parvaneh" or "Organ song" or "Londinium" are musical break-throughts , reminding me what Genesis or Pink Floyd did at this time . I can only suggest to pick up a copy of Londinium and start to listen and listen again to this fantastic band .It is too bad this Archive is not planning a tour in the USA .Good job guys!!!

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
$17.00
In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology?fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling.

"Judaic mythos, Freudian psychoanalysis, and e-mail all get fused into another staggeringly dense, brilliant slab of scholarship and suggestion."?The Guardian

"[Derrida] convincingly argues that, although the archive is a public entity, it nevertheless is the repository of the private and personal, including even intimate details."?Choice

"Beautifully written and clear."?Jeremy Barris, Philosophy in Review

"Translator Prenowitz has managed valiantly to bring into English a difficult but inspiring text that relies on Greek, German, and their translations into French."?Library Journal

Walter Benjamin's Archive
$27.95
Amazon's star rating system goes askew on this book.

If you are a devoted fan of Walter Benjamin, then it is essential. On the other hand, if you are like me---who has never read Mr. Benjamin's works ---then it won't be such a useful purchase.

Without a flowing textual narrative, this book provides detailed examples of the scraps and notes kept by Mr. Benjamin, who was a compulsive hoarder of all mundane things tied to his highly intellectual pursuits during most of the first half of the last century

The Archive (Documents of Contemporary Art)
$24.95
In the modern era, the archive?official or personal?has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and ensuing conflicts, the emergence of the postcolonial era, and the fall of communism have each provoked a reconsideration of the authority given the archive?no longer viewed as a neutral, transparent site of record but as a contested subject and medium in itself.

This volume surveys the full diversity of our transformed theoretical and critical notions of the archive?as idea and as physical presence?from Freud's "mystic writing pad" to Derrida's "archive fever"; from Christian Boltanski's first autobiographical explorations of archival material in the 1960s to the practice of artists as various as Susan Hiller, Ilya Kabakov, Thomas Hirshhorn, Ren���e Green, and The Atlas Group in the present.

Copublished with Whitechapel Art Gallery, London