[Reader-list] Foucault as a genealogist : The case for (non) archives

[sadan at sarai.net]

Dear Arnab,
thanks for suggestion to reread Foucault on archives. Agamben may be
another person to consider in this excercise. Tow quick respond, we also
need to read Foucault's geneology, Nietzsche... as a point in between his
earlier 'Archeology' and his lecutures... and then his power/knowledge.
The point i was trying to raise in my article though is not whether we need
archives or not but how archives can be profitably seen from vantage points
of different sets of people.
thanks.
sadan.
 
On 4:53 pm 01/03/08 ARNAB CHATTERJEE <apnawritings at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>        Now atlast I'm geared up to rise and make
> reviews of sentences we talked and questions we
> answered or left them out at  our last meeting in
> Delhi.
> First my conversation with mahmood farooqui and this
> is simultaneously for Sadan Jha and Ritwik
> Bhattacharya ( our own Kolkata archive theorist) as
> well ( having read sadan's  stuff on archive in
> CENSOR..book etc. and Ritwik's research on the archive
> and our own debate ehether pornography could have an
> archival living or not). Does philosophical history
> need archival materials? Does genealogy need archives?
> My answer is unequivocal "No". I'll go into the
> speculated details in my next post-- a bit of detail,
> that is. But I'll first submit to mahmood farooqui and
> my friends to reread Foucault's 'Nietzsche, genealogy
> and History' because there is stuff for both sides and
> I think Foucault simply puts his own oeuvre down by
> claiming a case for vast source materials once and
> then declaiming by saying archival materials have
> their origin in a sort of non archival trace. I'll
> argue, we could start by asking again , whether the
> necessity of archives arises from within the archives.
> If not, what are the consequences?
> And another hint,Foucault is helped by Nietzsche here,
> but consider Nietzsche's career as a genealogist( e.g
> of values): how much of  a source materialist he was,
> how deep referential?
>
>     Lets get onto the game, the outwork once more.
> Un happy new year to all
> arnab
>
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