RHETOR 103B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Death Drive, Jacques Derrida
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Lecture given 6/5/1994, originally titled the concept of the archive, a freudian. Begin at the word archive - names at once the commencement and the commandment (1) Two principles in history (1) there where things commence (nature) (2) there where men and god command, the place from which order is given. There are 2 orders of order (1) sequential and (2) jussive. The concept of archive shelters in itself the memory of the name atkhe and also shelters itself from this memory (2) Citizens with political power considered to possess the right to make or represent the law > therefore in their home official documents are filed (2) In this house arrest, archives take place (2) This dwelling marks the institutional passage from the private to the public (not always secret to nonsecret) (2-3) The archontic principle of the archive is also a principle of consignation, that is, of gathering together (3)
