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Curious about her critique of Derrida’s Archive Fever<\/i>, I picked up a
\ncopy of Carolyn Steedman’s Dust: The Archive and Cultural History<\/i> from
\nBird Library, recalling it from another patron who had checked it out (v. sorry
\nabout that). I deal briefly with AF<\/i> in Chapter Three. Steedman
\nmakes the point that AF<\/i> is less about archives than about Derrida’s
\nconcern for the slippage of origins (a theme in his other work) and the
\ninseparability of psychoanalysis from Freud (and also Judaism). She
\nwrites, "The Foreword [to AF<\/i>] carried the main argument, about Freud’s
\nJewish-ness, and the contribution of Jewish thought to the idea of the archive,
\nvia psycho-analysis" (7). Basically, Steedman is suspicious of Derrida’s
\ncharacterization of the fever (as a frenzied pursuit of origins which do not
\nproperly exist). She complains that the concept of the fever is degraded in
\ntranslation from Mal d’Archive<\/i>, and then she enthusiastically claims the
\nsickness Derrida mocks: "Archive fever, indeed? I can tell you all about<\/i>
\nArchive Fever!" (17). Dust undertakes this "all about-ness" at fever’s pitch;
\nSteedman, all the while, works to correct (or tune, at the very least) Derrida’s
\nglancing consideration of the archive left behind in his treatment of other
\nconcerns (psychoanalysis, Freud, and so on).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Steeedman suggests that Derrida, in questioning the concept of archivization,
\nwas late to the game: "There was a further puzzlement (or more accurately, a
\nbemusement feigned to mask a kind of artisant<\/i> irritation) among those who
\nknew the ‘archival turn’ to be well underway by 1994, with Derrida merely
\n(though compellingly) providing a theoretical perspective on the institution of
\narchives, the practices of reading and writing attendant on them, and the system
\nof regulation and coercion they have (sometimes) underlined" (2). Here,
\nidentifying Derrida’s tardiness to the conversation, next Steedman pairs him
\nwith Foucault and suggests that Derrida is merely winding down a path blazed by
\nFoucault in the 1960s with The Archaeology of Knowledge<\/i>. This all seems
\nreasonable, except that Steedman downplays Derrida’s insights on digital
\ncirculation. In twenty-first century discourse networks, an institutional (or
\ndisciplinary) memory is differently distributed (this strand of Derrida’s
\nlecture in 1994 seems to me to make him early rather than late, at least in
\nterms of oncoming changes for archives because of digitization). As I read it,
\nthis is the point where Steedman’s critique could be more lenient or forgiving
\nthan it is.<\/p>\n

Steedman has more to say about Derrida, about magistrates, and about
\nMichelet’s work in the archive (some of which draws on an essay from Barthes I
\nhaven’t read). Here’s a sample of what she writes about the fever she
\nknows so well, even relishes:<\/p>\n

Typically, the fever–more accurately, the precursor fever*<\/sup>–starts in
\n\tthe early hours of the morning, in the bed of a cheap hotel, where the
\n\thistorian cannot get to sleep. You can not get to sleep because you
\n\tlie so narrowly, in an attempt to avoid contact with anything that isn’t
\n\tshielded by sheets and pillowcase. The first sign, then, is an
\n\texcessive attention to the bed, an irresistible anxiety about the hundreds
\n\twho have slept there before you, leaving their dust and debris in the fibres
\n\tof the blankets, greasing the surface of the heavy, slippery counterpane.
\n\tThe dust of others, and of other times, fills the room, settles on the
\n\tcarpet, marks out the sticky passage from the bed to bathroom. (17)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oye! To-do list: Reconsider the hotel booked for CCCC in April. As if the
\ndust in the cheap hotel isn’t enough, Steedman continues, describing the rising
\nacuity of the hotel’s built-in, built-up rattiness as a "screen anxiety." "What
\nkeeps you awake…is actually the archive, and its myriad of the dead, who all
\nday long, have pressed their concerns upon you. You think: these people have
\nleft me the lot<\/i>…. You think: I could get to hate these people; and
\nthen: I can never do these people justice; and finally: I shall never get it
\ndone<\/i>" (17-18). Can their differences be summed up like this?: Steedman’s
\nwork hinges on the past, the rank<\/i> traces of dust (as material remnant of
\npeople and things); Derrida has concern for a fixation on the exhaustibility of
\nthe past the, in its obsessive pursuit, does not sufficiently heed the futurist
\norientation of the archive. Probably this is too simple.<\/p>\n

I am losing hope that this one blog entry will mend the gap between Steedman
\nand Derrida. I will shelve it in case I need to figure this out later
\n(also because Steedman is not yet in the diss or my CCCC talk, for that matter).
\nBefore setting the entry to post, here are two more excerpts I want to hold
\nonto:<\/p>\n

This is what Dust is about; this is what Dust is: what it means and what
\n\tit is. It is not about rubbish, nor about the discarded; it is not about a
\n\tsurplus, left over from something else: it is not about Waste<\/i>.
\n\tIndeed, Dust is the opposite thing to Waste, or at least, the opposite
\n\tprinciple to Waste. It is about circularity, the impossibility of
\n\tthings disappearing, or going away, or being gone. Nothing can be destroyed.
\n\t(164)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curious here is whether Derrida works according to a similar set of
\nprinciples: "It is about circularity, the impossibility of things disappearing,
\nor going away, or being gone." Dust<\/i>: no ends; AF<\/i>: no origins.\n<\/p>\n

Still more: Reading in a chapter called "The Story of Dust," Steedman’s
\npolarization of dust and waste is repeated; this time, however, it comes with a
\nreference to Moretti:<\/p>\n

Dust–the Philosophy of Dust–speaks of the opposite of waste and
\n\tdispersal; of a grand circularity, of nothing ever, ever going away. There
\n\twere complex, articulate and well-understood languages developed to express
\n\tthis knowledge, a few of which I have mentioned. And I suggest that
\n\tDust is another way of seeing what Franco Moretti described as the
\n\tnineteenth-century solution to the violent ruptures of the late eighteenth
\n\tcentury, a solution found in narrative. (166)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am intrigued–even feverish (perhaps only struck with a passing feverlet)–by
\nthese tensions: narrative and database, a past-ist and futurist orientation for
\narchivization, the im\/permanence of material and digital substrates (nothing
\never!<\/i> going away, except when a hard drive crashes or a thumb drive takes an
\naccidental tumble in the clothes dryer and no data is rescued in the lint trap).
\nDifferent dusts, then, and different problems for archives, for the work of
\narchivization and circulation, through which traces either go on or collapse
\ninto the brew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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