Presentation of the Annals of Declassification, No. 1, 2005 and No. 2, 2006, Vol I: "The defeat of the cultural area" in the Library of Santiago, Thursday, July 6, 2006. Alejandra Araya
Historian, University of Chile.
begin by the question: What are
Annals of Declassification? Body
printed compared Declassification Laboratory, defined as a group of researchers looking for, compile, discuss and disseminate a body of texts and documents unknown "lost, forgotten, hidden and poorly known" in order to implement critical to frames that have been developed "classification systems" that have governed and govern the social sciences and literature. The Annals is organized around Dossiers which in turn presents declassified documents accompanied by interesting critical equipment and some items that attach to a So with them either thematically, geographically or conceptually in order to produce any comparison or as a performative gesture of free associations justified by profit desclasificatorio of these new "scientific" that replace other insects: the documents. It is no coincidence therefore that call themselves "laboratory." The first volume I read avidly, with pleasure against a range of reading suggestions and attitude that converge with mine from a basin that meets the surrealism, psychoanalysis and the spirit of freedom and very curious about invasibas tickets, disrespectful, arrogant and full of life to the territory of the historian: death, absence, and the fervor to revive, to present, embody a rest, a fingerprint, a relic trapped in a role. Can be accommodated in these records for declassification of material objects?
Then I said, what we see is the transformation of texts into objects and monuments, carved, dusted, relocated. For a classical historian these records would be a journal that publishes papers, as many circulating with the same eagerness to inform other texts curious little known. The desire of staff to connect to laboratory workers who want to declassify what comes to them by other classification procedures. A historian least traditional appeal to the declassification of documents as a political gesture and epistemological seek the unusual, unknown, hidden and secret talks to unconscious subject to traditional history. She belonged to José Toribio Medina as its armed wing as bibliophile and writer, built it along with others like the archive of a nation in the sense that LDC members expressed the following Jacques Derrida and Evil File, ie building a great keeper of secrets, and a cohort of historians who write about it publicly. It is made of the secretariats of the compulsion of public and private writings of the centuries before the nineteenth positive file, a collection of evidence of a major project of machination of a living body from a dead body always the rule. So a maverick historian, can recognize that there are funds and documentary, which is legal and shrapnel corpus fund several or many, in the secretariats rather than files and that's where insects are so strange and fascinating for its power of life that attracted these desclasificadotes. We have here the texts that speak of the draft Araucana Federation between 1926 and 1931, youth associations and delusional Araucanian Panguilef Manuel Aburto, a Manual of words that takes us to Africa, colonial science texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the fantastic Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora determined to appoint and to incorporate American, rather to translate the American to his own world in a shaded, creative and surreal) to America, mythical and imagined spaces of Timbuktu to the Caribbean. The emphasis is on the territories, but in the second volume that look and listen focuses on the abject subjects, which allow up to others, and that this gesture is also classified and set in territories: prison, psychiatry the border, the colonial period and the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as the boundary of rationality and as a process that gives the name and face to America, is the colonization of a picture that is fundamental pillar the notion of body and body systems. I understand the fascination of anthropologists and literary documents as against insects, which is beyond the animal kingdom classifications, and even as a reference unparalleled account of the process by which it produces the humanization of animals, including us. I think here you share a fascination that binds to the origin of these sciences of human and social, that is, in the classic debate between nature and culture. But historians have ambiguous relationships with it because our country was part of the long natural history, men in animal species. When the differs from the historiography natural historians do when it returns to the testimony of that kind in his voice, along the track and the witness including the historian.
Then, we opted to give testimony of the absences and presences on the written test are not all written documents, select what is considered authority, institution and sepsis. But I will not elaborate more about what is said in these annals of history and historians, I find the greatest interest that are shifted to these areas. I'll just say that I hope is this a fruitful and this depends on how informed we are the parties on each other's practices and the paths of these practices. In this regard, I welcome the invasion of the file and libraries for all, but I applaud the monologue of experience and pride about believing you are installing an entirely new and revolutionary when several similar experiences arising precisely from the deconstruction.
Well, now I want to comment on what accompanies the title of the Annals, "the defeat of the cultural area." It is presented here as a program of research that seeks, first, to deconstruct the classifications from anthropology and sociology allowed to build a colonial and imperialist practices with the concept of cultural area, ie a kind of archeology of the classifications and grading criteria so the notion of class in different fields. They are discussed at all in the first volume in a manifesto-like introduction collective hands full of different rhythms and different interests. On the other, to declassify the texts that show the failure of these attempts at classification and that we show as symbols of resistance scientific, political and epistemological. I do not ever want to expose this dark exposure, I want to encourage you to read the manifest and see artifacts that are good for thinking. Repeat only a few paragraphs that I thought clarifying the intentions of this Laboratory and these Annals: "The declassification event is what links the moment of liberation, to sovereignty that moment of pure who wants to escape to the determinations of class, instant meeting with the indeterminate, the declassification that you will escape a This update is presented as class legislation, extending to areas of past and future attempts to dominate. " This was expressed from a reflection that starting with Marcel Mauss and Lévy-Strauss, wanders Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, the kinship with what Georges Bataille called paradoxical philosophies and paradoxical life, ie escape the classification is to have sovereignty, but he went further, the sovereign was really thinking that did not serve any knowledge. Here
differences are accepted, priority is movement, impression, the interpretation, the dissection of the analysis. Indeed, here surrealism appeals to a science, a proposal that has a long journey and we could say that is combined with the knowledge that classifies, as always with a kind of side B, however, for the colonial world turns out to be the space of two applications: sorting, ordering that which is unclassifiable by monstrous. Therefore, share the emotion contained in this proposal, I do not share the tone of "never suggested" that circulates in it, that is, the arrogance that is always installed in colonized by Western thinking. This troupe of the two drives, classified and unclassified, has a common road map, unbreakable (not declassified documents would otherwise), including the possibility of opening spaces for classification become warehouse space and there you have not heard the impulse to write another. Why Blacks, Indians, mulattos and women are left more traces in the secretariats devoured by the file? I return to the idea of \u200b\u200bshared road map classify and declassify. It says at the end of the first volume shows that when the early twentieth century sociologists classify renounced by the collective invasion and personalizing emotional metaphor, psychoanalytic classification appears to operate from the notion of censorship. As you read this, I could not stop thinking about shaping the practice of confession, self-knowledge and technologies that are installed as tools of religious counter to install on the secret to the excitement. Mystics must be in the convents, the confessor will be the secret file. The spiritual and mystical be considered hysterical and not in the nineteenth century, nor Charcot and Freud, was an earlier process, secular, continued to catch that which is beyond the authority of any classification. Stranger in this record clearance to a permanent object of this desire that generates classification and subject abject bodies: women. The only one that shares the lab makes operation that does not fold to the order of the texts and documents designed from the imperial classification: sewing, patchwork, embroidery, collage. Here, the wife of the laboratory, and ordered published texts, graphically, the manifest intention is much clearer in the visual. Side notes as another text off. Say
hope a world without classes, encouraging me in my initial reading replicated at the end of the first manifesto of the volume when he says: "Before the announcement of an end to the contradictions of humanism, the incorporation of lower classes emerges structural noise of a proletariat that refuses to be the last, to endorse the end of a story that began without him. " That is, all critical to the announcement of orthodox Marxism and any proposals from the movement history, the relationship between subject and dynamic identity, and from practices, is released in the trash because it refuses to pass the manifest to the pamphlet. Every promise of salvation is a conviction, since here the story becomes to be ethnocentric, structural, systemic, teleological and essentialist. It wants to declassify what is often claimed by qualifying transaction face and name, which is appointed may be entitled to a face and a role. That therefore the classification did not resist, he heard his word and had faith. I do not share the reading of texts as waste or leakage to the declassification why are they there? Rather it is the question of will writing, justice how to get out of the colonial reason?
I agree with highlighting the secret files, and the construction of other files. I agree to give an account of life that resists to die in the file but I do not want more promises, no panaceas, no new confessors, no new sermons. Here stops my fascination with the Annals of clearance, but I will stay with the initial fascination with the Surrealist object. I keep the volume a volume rather than two. I'll take the show, not the brochure.
understand this magazine as an organ of the Laboratory as a support without which the project is not possible as they did the avant-garde of the twentieth century, since from the point of view of "science" and "epistemology" I find no major difference between them and the critical theories and sheds so-called postmodern authors. This publication is a political gesture as surrealist object. Finally, other comments and related to the above. When I came across this publication, without knowing its creators, and give it a read messy as always usually do, including the violation of taboos about not reading the end, my first image was surrealism. Subjects who refused to be classified, but they would not be confused. The staging of automatic associations that connected the abject beings produced by colonial and imperial right. Then the fragments met, people who had already seen, smelled, and other appearances other in a seminar on new Pornología in Viña del Mar, with a poster that just returned me to René Magritte surrealism. And to think that line two this Laboratory program from what they call the animal oral pornológico and Marxism, I remembered a company ever made of my friends History at the College of Mexico to address our criticism of traditional historiography and canon all the images on what should be a historian and a scholar, wanted to do a magazine called Pornohistoria and oral history. Of course, our attitude was festive and ironic and not serious and disciplined as I comment now. I invite you to visit the Annals of clearance and grateful that I have incorporated this exquisite corpse cannibal making presenter.
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