“The past has no unambiguous meaning, and nowhere is this clearer than in the archives.”
― The Allure of the Archives
― The Allure of the Archives
“Seemingly insignificant and unimportant details can reveal what was unspoken and outline lively forms of intelligence and reasoned understandings, interwoven with broken dreams and spent desires.”
― The Allure of the Archives
― The Allure of the Archives
“The archive is a vantage point from which the symbolic and intellectual constructions of the past can be rearranged. It is a matrix that does not articulate "the" truth but rather produces, through recognition as much as through disorientation, the elements necessary to ground a discourse of truth telling that refuses lies.”
― The Allure of the Archives
― The Allure of the Archives
“The complex link between the people anonymously submerged in history and the society that they belonged to.”
― The Allure of the Archives
― The Allure of the Archives
“We cannot bring back to life those whom we find cast ashore in the archives.”
― The Allure of the Archives
― The Allure of the Archives
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