Stirrings in the Archives

Like most of Wolfgang Ernst's work, Das Rumoren der Archiv explored the concept of archival and media theory from a current cultural digital context. Ernst challenges the traditional perspective of the cultural heritage institution and how it relied on media for creating, storing, and disseminating digital information. Archives have a place in a digital society, and the archivist's role will be more increasingly vital in the future. As Ernst points out, his work will show a way out of the archive, away from the notion that the era of archive is coming to an end. Stirrings in the Archives: Order from Disorder is the long-awaited English translation of this seminal work exploring cultural heritage before the archives, throughout history, and from today into the future.

Chapter 1. The Inflation of the Archive
Chapter 2. Before the Archive
Chapter 3. Writing the Archive Transitively?
Chapter 4. "A New Archivist": Foucault
Chapter 5. The Archive as "Submedial Space"
Chapter 6. The Gaps Are The Archive
Chapter 7. Excercices de silence (Silence in the Archive)
Chapter 8. Prosopopoetic Phantasms (Scenes from the Archives)
Chapter 9. DRACULArchiv
Chapter 10. Inverted Time: The Space of the Archive
Chapter 11. Textuality of History? Archives and Literature
Chapter 12. Faking the Archives
Chapter 13. Archibiograffiti
Chapter 14. The Mother of Archives: Rome
Chapter 15. In History's Arsenal: The Archival catechon
Chapter 16. From Louis XIV to Big Brother: Monitoring
Chapter 17. Historical Bodies
Chapter 18. Collection and Dispersal: The Posthumous
Chapter 19. Dedicated to the Archive? Jacques Derrida and (the) Paul de Man's Case
Chapter 20. "We From the Archive"
Chapter 21. Book-enwald
Chapter 22. The Mechanization of the Archive
Chapter 23. Entropy: A Rubbish Theory of the Archive
Chapter 24. In the End: Digital Anarchi(v)es

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