Questions on/of the Archive
Where is the archive? Does the archive rely upon, require, or derive from (with[in]) space? Does, or must, the archive have a place (does it, in fact, take place)? Does […]
Category Archives: Interpretative
Preliminary Theses on the Nature of the Archive
The archive is not the repository of its artifacts (though one may find artifacts in the archive); rather, the archive is a network of events both potential and conjectural. The […]
First Statements on the Nature of Speculative Archives
The historian speaks minutely, concretely, for the cacophonous voices of the archive :: The speculative archive speaks cacophonously for a minute, concrete, solitary voice of history. The archive is the […]
336 Names of Valaco
A. Second Given Name/Surname B. First Given Name/Second Given Name C. Both Given Names/Surname (Template) ANALYSIS OF COMBINATION MATRICES Table ‘A’ corresponds to an explicit tendency within the Valaco materials […]
Concept Oscilator I (bastionruin)
Concept Oscilator II (nachleben)
Schriftatlas III, 1b
Darkness is not outside of reason; it is the blood of reason, the form reason assumes in sleep… (III, 1b)
Schriftatlas II, 1a
I have crossed an ocean, a hemisphere, and the continents which cleave them, in pursuit–of what?–perhaps scarcely more than some new means by which to see the infinitely visible things […]
Schriftatlas II, 2a
Where does construction end and ruin begin? What distinguishes destruction from decay? The swift jetsam of a dropped or blasted bomb cannot share the attributes of that slow detritus which […]
Schriftatlas I, 3a
Yet, what of this activity of collecting per se? What of collection? Is it not, tacitly, an obsessive act of repetition, each new item acquired simply to re-open the same […]
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