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Re: Quotes re archives



In an enigmatic sense which will clarify itself perhaps (perhaps, because
nothing can be sure here, for essential reasons), the question of the
archive is not, I repeat, a question of the past, the question of a concept
dealing with the past which already might either be at our disposal or not
at out disposal, an archivable concept of the archive, but rather a question
of the future, the very question of the future, question of a response, of a
promise and of a responsibility for tomorrow. The archive: if we want to
know what this will have meant, we will only know tomorrow.

from
Jacques Derrida
Mal d'Archive
Une Impression Freudienne
Paris: Galilee 1995

http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/arch.html
<http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/arch.html>

Jan Boles
Smylie Archives
Albertson College of Idaho

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