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Berry, D. 2017 . The Post-Archival Constellation: The Archive
under the Technical Conditions of Computational Media. Em I.
ref bib Blom, T. Lundemo, & E. Røssaak Eds.), Memory in Motion:
Archives, Technology, and the Social (pp. 103 128 . Amesterdão:
Amsterdam University Press. Acedido a 20 de Novembro de 2019
em https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17872.
título The Post-Archival Constellation: The Archive under the Technical
Conditions of Computational Media
resumo
conceitos: digitalização, computação, mediação, abstracção
Aborda a forma como o arquivo, como condição para a construção socio-
cultural, é dependente do meio pelo qual é transmitido e dado a conhecer,
sendo que esse meio é cada vez mais mediado por processos
computacionais.
estrutura
Berry, The Post-Archival Constellation, 2017 1
Introdução]
De-archiving the archive
Materialized abstractions [flat design e material design; casos Apple e
Google]
The post-archival constellation
principais pontos
— o arquivo já não se encontra encerrado em instituições como bibliotecas e
museus com acesso restrito. Na verdade, o poder dos investigadores e
arquivistas de interpretar o arquivo transformou-se com a digitalização e as
novas técnicas computacionais - que tornaram o acesso ao arquivo possível e
mais fácil.
— a introdução dos novos medias alterou aquilo que se tinha vindo a entender
como arquivo. Esta disrupção gerou as condições para a criação de novas
formas de arquivo através de práticas de re-arquivar.
— re-arquivar aponta para a mutação do arquivo de um domínio estático
para um que é informado e mediado por estruturas computacionais que
restruturam esse espaço através de formatação, estruturação e
classificação.
— os arquivos podem ter várias camadas e a sua organização estrutural
pode ter formas de arquivo mais profundas ou mais superficiais (ou seja,
os arquivos variam em facilidade de acesso). Ainda assim, a computação
alcança todos estes pontos e, ao fazê-lo, reorganiza o conhecimento, os
artefactos e objectos e os sistemas, com base no princípio do
conhecimento computacional.
citações
def. arquivo
«Wolfgang Ernst argues that the original role of an archive was ‘to preserve
[…] for an indefinite time, or even to bar present access, conserving […] for
later, unexpected, and hence truly informational use’.» (p. 103
«For Derrida, the ‘gathering’ of an archive was the ‘dwelling in a location’ and a
place for objects and knowledge to be sheltered. It was a place of
classification and putting into order a process of archivization.» (p. 103
«This is another way of saying that the archive (...) is not only the place for
stocking and for conserving an archivable content of the past which would
exist in any case, such as, without the archive (...). No, the technical structure
of the archiving archive also determines the structure of the archivable
content even in its very coming into existence and in its relationship to the
future. The archivization produces as much as it records the event.» (p.103
«The archive, which is ‘traditionally that which arrests time, which stops all
motion, [instead] is set in motion in the age of digitization’.» (p.104
«We are here confronted with a process in which the links between the
contents of archives and their internal structure are increasingly lost or hidden,
while a computerized ledger abstracts the archive from its representation. This
changes the frameworks of social and individual memory (...). Could it be that
the computational transformations in the structure and use of archives may
act as a canary in the coalmine [prenúncio] for wider changes in knowledge in
society more generally?» (p.105
«algorithms structure not just knowledge but also space and time.» (p.107
«In changing the structure of archives, and the memory institutions that curate
and store them, computation renders them anew through a grammatization
process that discretizes and re-orders. (...) T]hrough computational
mediation, new approaches and methods are made objective and thereby
instrumental.» (p.108
«Digitalization puts pressure on the need for the storage of originals, and
many objects are sent off to less-expensive locations far from the centres of
population. But it also raises the question of the need for originals as, sooner
or later, the access or footfall (which is tracked) shows a declining access rate
for the original materials. In some cases, the digital versions are considered
superior to the originals due to the quality and resolution of the scanning
processes. New digital formats also present the materials in new interfaces
such as PDFs, HTML5, ePUB, and other storage formats.» (p.109
«All objects are treated as records to be entered into a database, and they are
processed through a grammatization framework which flattens the object
not only into the data store but also within the warehouse space: the
singularity of the object is, in other words, abstracted away by the
technology.» (p.110
Berry, The Post-Archival Constellation, 2017 6
bibliografia relevante
— Røssaak, Eivind, ed. 2010. The Archive in Motion. Oslo: National Library of
Norway.
— Berry, David M., 2014. Critical Theory and the Digital. New York:
Bloomsbury.