Paper Machine (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Softcover

Derrida, Jacques

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ISBN 10: 0804746206 ISBN 13: 9780804746205

Verlag: STANFORD UNIV PR, 2005

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This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive.

Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret, pardon, perjury, state sovereignty, hospitality, the university, animal rights, capital punishment, the question of what sort of mediatized world is replacing the print epoch, and the question of the “wholly other.” Derrida is remarkable at making seemingly occasional pieces into part of a complexly interconnected trajectory of thought.

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The late Jacques Derrida was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are Eyes of the University (2003), For What Tomorrow... with Elisabeth Roudinesco (2003), Counterpath with Catherine Malabou (2003), Negotiations (2002), Who's Afraid of Philosophy? (2002), and Without Alibi (2002). All of these have been published by the Stanford University Press.

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This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive.
Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret, pardon, perjury, state sovereignty, hospitality, the university, animal rights, capital punishment, the question of what sort of mediatized world is replacing the print epoch, and the question of the “wholly other.” Derrida is remarkable at making seemingly occasional pieces into part of a complexly interconnected trajectory of thought.

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This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive.
Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret, pardon, perjury, state sovereignty, hospitality, the university, animal rights, capital punishment, the question of what sort of mediatized world is replacing the print epoch, and the question of the wholly other. Derrida is remarkable at making seemingly occasional pieces into part of a complexly interconnected trajectory of thought.

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PAPER MACHINE

Cultural Memory in the PresentBy Jacques Derrida

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Copyright © 2001 ditions Galile
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Contents

Translator's Note.................................................................................................................................ix1. Machines and the "Undocumented Person".........................................................................................................12. The Book to Come...............................................................................................................................43. The Word Processor.............................................................................................................................194. "But ... No, but ... Never ..., and Yet ..., as to the Media": Intellectuals. Attempt at Definition by Themselves. Survey......................335. Paper or Me, You Know ... (New Speculations on a Luxury of the Poor)...........................................................................416. The Principle of Hospitality...................................................................................................................667. "Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious"............................................................................................................708. As If It Were Possible, "Within Such Limits"...................................................................................................739. My Sunday "Humanities".........................................................................................................................10010. For Jos Rainha: What I Believe and Believe I Know............................................................................................10911. "What Does It Mean to Be a French Philosopher Today?".........................................................................................11212. Not Utopia, the Im-possible...................................................................................................................12113. "Others Are Secret Because They Are Other"....................................................................................................13614. Fichus: Frankfurt Address.....................................................................................................................164Notes.............................................................................................................................................183

Chapter One

Machines and the "Undocumented Person"

So there's such a thing as papier-machine-typing paper, printer paper, machine paper. And what we think we recognize under this name, a French one.

So there's what we normally use, following the "usual" name, papier-machine, to the letter, in the strict or the literal sense: the form of a matter, the sheet designed as the backing or medium for a typewriter's writing, and also now for the printing, reproduction, and archiving of the products of so many word-processing machines, and the like. This then is what becomes a figure here, what a rhetorician would also call a "locus."

Machine paper: so the title gestures toward a place, a figure, in fact more than one figure.

By effectively displacing the normal usage of the expression papier-machine to put pressure on its articulation; by juxtaposing, without a hyphen, two nouns of equal stature (paper and machine, machine or paper: neither is ever the attribute of the other, or its subject), this title is an attempt to name a singular configuration, an addition, an ordered set of metaphors, tropes, and metonymies. What then does paper mean here? What should we understand by machine? What is the meaning of the hypothesis or the prosthesis of their subjectless coupling: machine paper?

There would be no justification for this title unless slowly, laboriously, in the time taken by the texts gathered together here, it awakened, heralded, or prepared something like a "thinking" of "machine paper," a thinking of a hyphen that is visible or invisible, between the machine and the paper. Not a speculative thought, not a philosophy, not even a theory, but an experience of writing, a path ventured, a series of "political" gestures (at the center of this book, we will hear the echoing, for instance, in more than one register, literal and figurative, of the question of the person with no papers, crushed by so many machines, "when we are all, already, undocumented, 'paperless'").

Over a short period, about four years, gestures of this kind recall the attempts arising from an anxious seeking, a modest strategy, in short an effort of orientation in thought, at the point when some are hastening to announce the end of a history constrained not only by the authority of the book but by a paper economy-and therefore the urgency of reactivating its memory and its origin.

From this place-a rhetorical topos and an experiential situation-from this historical spot where we are passing through, even more or less settled down, we then wonder: What's going on? What's taking place between the paper and the machine? What new experience of taking place? What does an event become? What becomes of its archive when the world of paper (the world made of paper or what globalization still gets from paper) is subordinated to all these new machines for virtualization? Is there such a thing as virtual event? A virtual archive? Would it be that new? An unprecedented "scene of writing," I would have said in the past, or another "archive fever"? What does that offer us for thinking about the relationship between the act, the actual, the possible, and the impossible? Between the event and fantasy, or the spectral? For what new rights? And what new interpretation of "the political"?

All the texts in this book are due-to occasions, to provocations, to opportunities given, sometimes by people close to me, personal friends or political friends. So, taking them as determining situations, I thought I should at least indicate the "places" for which these texts were initially written. Always in reply to an invitation, a request, or a survey.

All of them institutions (highly national or quite international, if not universal) given over to the machine and to paper, each held to its own rhythm, to the original temporality of its survival.

All of them institutions imposing (as we can tell from writing and reading) their norms, their rules of the game, the memory or the fantasy of their experience, the authority of their assumed competence.

All of them institutions whose names in each case, and just the title (a whole program), would by themselves deserve more than one work, whether or not a book.

1. The book, the great archive or the great copyright library of the book: the Bibliothque nationale de France [French National Library].

2. The journal, between the book and the newspaper: Les Temps Modernes, Les Cahiers de mdiologie, the Revue internationale de philosophie.

3. The newspaper or magazine, daily, fortnightly, or monthly: La Quinzaine Littraire, Le Monde, L'Humanit, Die Zeit, Le Figaro Magazine, Le Monde de l'ducation.

My warm thanks to all those who have given their agreement for me to collect these texts together, after having given me the chance to respond to their invitations or...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: STANFORD UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804746206
• ISBN 13: 9780804746205
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 203
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