RHETOR 103B Lecture 25: R103B Lecture 25 04.27.2017
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Highlights the spectrality of the archive in many ways. Archive determines what gets archived in it. Think about what archive constitutes and how discourse constitutes sexuality in freud. Specters important because it does not foreclose truth (possibilities of the future) since we do not know it. Mialet and latour are thinking about other divisions real/ narrative science/ politics. D: injunction to remember important to be open to the future (that is yet to. M: look at history materially and understood of laws of past to bring out. Essay about relationship between past, present and future come) communism in the present. Memories repressed but still there, coming back to haunt us through delusions or dreams, shaping who we are. E. g. cannot understood hanold"s love for science without knowing his repression of love. Latour: if you want to understand the world, consider hybrids: not think the world as separated and compartmentalized! Freud: ghosts and their functions (specters, dreams, delusions)
