RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Jacques Derrida, Death Drive, Simulacrum
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By jacques derrida (cid:498)archive(cid:499) names (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:524) commencement and (cid:523)(cid:884)(cid:524) commandment. Coordinates two principles: one according to nature/ history, where things commence; the other according to the law, place form which order is given. Two orders of order: sequential and jussive. Concept of archive shelters the memory of the name arkhe. Meaning from geerk arkhe: house, domicile of the archons who commanded. Citizens who held political power had the right to make/ represent the law at their home at official documents are filed official documents. Marks institutional passage from private to public, which does not always speak the law mean from the secret to the nonsecret. Archonic power paired with power of consignation: (1) assigning resident or of entrusting so as to put into reserve, (2) gathering together signs, consignation aims to coordinate a single corpus. When one menaces the possibility of consignation, this can have grave consequences for a theory of the archive and its institutional implementation.
