Archives & utopia / edited by Stefan Aue ; with contributions by Daniela Agostinho [and six others].

First edition.

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2022]
[New York] : Distribution, USA, Canada, Central and South America, Africa, Artbook/D.A.P.

104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Das neue Alphabet = The new alphabet ; vol. 14

Following the archivist's desire to select, categorize, and store past and present runs the risk of perpetuating hegemonic ways of thinking. For anticipating what will be of importance in the future is closely tied in with present-day realities and power structures. As a counterpoint to this, the volume looks at archives as spaces of alternative research and production sites of utopias relating to possible futures. Paul Scheerbart's futuristic 1910 novella, Zack und Sidi und der grosse Kopf (Zack and Sidi and the Big Head), in which two inhabitants of the planet Ceres reflect on knowledge production and identity, is the starting point for genre-busting ruminations on mechanisms, methods, and tools for designing views of potential worlds and forms of archival activism.

9783959055260 paperback
3959055269 paperback

Archives Philosophy.
Archives Philosophie.

Aue, Stefan, editor.
Agostinho, Daniela, contributor.
Neue Alphabet ; v. 14.

Archives and utopia

Location: Library main 322994
Call No.: 322994
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Status: Available