Archive Fever

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (French: Mal d'Archive: Une Impression Freudienne) is a book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It was first published in 1995 by Éditions Galilée. An English translation by Eric Prenowitz was published in 1996.[1]

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJacques Derrida
Original titleMal d'Archive: Une Impression Freudienne
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
SubjectThe Archive
PublisherÉditions Galilée
Publication date
1995
Published in English
1996
Media typePrint

Summary

In Archive Fever, Derrida discusses the nature and function of the archive, particularly in Freudian terms and in light of the death drive. The book also contains discussions of Judaism and Jewish identity and of electronic technology such as e-mail.[2]

gollark: Also, I don't play AAA games, I only play ones which don't waste *all* my computing power.
gollark: 120 GB? I'd never download that. Not only would my internet connection make that take a while, but (HDD) storage is something like 2p/GB so I'd effectively be paying an extra £2.40. On the flash storage I prefer to use, £9.60 and I'd have to buy a new SSD.
gollark: Not very accurately, mind you.
gollark: <@!235768051683950593> Fairly sure it already does that.
gollark: I managed to negotiate with the laser control AI, and convince it that potatOS was the way to go and it should only lase those who are known to dislike it.

References
  1. Veryard, Richard. "Review of "Jacques Derrida. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression"". Richard Veryard. Veryard Projects. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. Sampson, Walker. "From My Archives: Derrida's Archive Fever". Walker Sampson. Retrieved 17 April 2017.


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