Archivize

His discoveries have been made by sympathetic looking rather than by assiduous archivizing.

It was twenty years before he was archivized, and then Norman Granz in 1954 did it with a vengeance: two hundred piano solos on eleven twelve-inch discs entitled “The Genius of Art Tatum.”

Therefore, if discourse analysis archivizes archives, it is not to reconstruct the unity and continuity of a history, but quite the contrary: to dissolve the phantasm of world history into many individual storage devices which themselves were forgotten and/or retained.

And this invites reflection, because starting from the point where it became possible to archivize the crime and the site of the crime, it was decided that this type of visual archive was not valid as testimony, no doubt also because of our metaphysical prejudices about interiority: we are not ready or willing to give up the presumed presence of a human being who can always lie or not remember.