An Archive of Political Possibilities?
An Archive of Political Possibilities?
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政治可能性的档案？
DOI：
10.1080/14649357.2023.2246303
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
3.9
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Inch A
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Inch A
最近，我花了一些时间在市政档案馆和地方研究图书馆，试图追踪20世纪70年代和80年代激进规划倡议的细节。尽管它们经常资源不足，但令人欣慰的是，这些重要的公共服务在紧缩政策的蹂躏下幸存下来，并仍然免费提供。看着这些忠诚而知识渊博的员工们工作，我感到很高兴。无论是帮助公众揭开家族历史，还是协助晦涩的学术研究项目，很明显，他们关心的是将人们与过去联系起来。尽管当地档案管理员很敬业，但我也被许多规划历史似乎是多么难以捉摸所震惊。虽然日常管理的事情经常被编目一式三份，但很明显，即使是最近发生的事件，也有大量细节被遗漏，据推测已经丢失。令人沮丧的是，关键的来源仍然遥不可及，让你怀疑他们是否被错误地归档或根本没有保存。当然，总是有更多的东西从来没有印在纸上。档案记录的不完整是不可避免的，但它是否也应该成为一个令人担忧的问题？比我更有经验和技巧的历史学家很好地习惯于在档案中导航“现在缺席”和“缺席存在”，解释幸存的来源，同时注意所有尚未说出口的东西。我当然不能声称在这方面有任何真实的专业知识，但最近的经历让我思考在新自由主义的当下重视过去意味着什么。在决定我们选择保存什么历史材料时，总是会有一些实际问题需要考虑。这是一个高技能和劳动密集型的行业。随着时间的推移，组织产生的信息的绝对物理量构成了非常真实的挑战。技术变革带来了令人头痛的问题，尤其是如此多的数字格式的快速冗余（任何认为互联网将使我们不朽的人显然没有试图追踪21世纪初发布在网上的文件）。所有这些都会导致我们做出选择，无论是有意的还是无意的，这些选择都会对我们记住什么和忘记什么产生持久的影响。
I’ve been spending some time in municipal archives and local studies libraries of late, trying to track down details of radical planning initiatives from the 1970s and 1980s. Although they are often under-resourced, it’s reassuring that these important public services have survived the ravages of austerity and remain freely available. I take a quiet pleasure from watching the committed and knowledgeable staff go about their work. Whether helping members of the public uncover family histories or assisting obscure academic research projects, it’s clear they care about connecting people with the past.Despite the dedication of local archivists, however, I’ve also been struck by how elusive a lot of planning history seems to be. While the routine administration of things has regularly been catalogued in triplicate, it quickly becomes apparent that a significant amount of detail on even quite recent events is missing, presumed lost. Key sources remain frustratingly out of reach, leaving you wondering whether they’ve been misfiled or just weren’t kept at all. And, of course, there is always much more that was never printed on paper in the first place. The patchiness of archival records is inevitable, but should it also be a source of concern? More experienced and skilful historians than me are well used to navigating ‘present absences’ and ‘absent presences’ in archives, interpreting surviving sources whilst remaining attentive to all that remains unsaid. I certainly can’t claim any real expertise in this, but recent experiences have left me considering what it means to value the past in the neoliberal present. There are always going to be practical issues to consider when deciding what historical material we choose to preserve. Archiving is both highly skilled and labour intensive. The sheer physical quantity of information generated by organisations over time poses very real challenges. These have been exacerbated by technological change which has brought its own headaches, not least the rapid redundancy of so many digital formats (anyone who thinks the internet will make us immortal clearly hasn’t tried to track down documents posted online in the early 2000s). All of which leads to choices being made, both deliberately and inadvertently, that will have lasting effects on what we remember and what we forget.
裂纹的形而上学：非洲未来主义和鬼魂学
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发表时间：
2013
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作者：
M. Fisher
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M. Fisher
迈向大都会
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发表时间：
2000
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作者：
A. Davey
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A. Davey