GRK 1049: Archives, Power and Knowledge - Organising, Controlling and Destroying Stored Knowledge from Antiquity to the Present

GRK 1049：档案、权力和知识 - 组织、控制和销毁从古代到现在存储的知识

• 批准号: 375535
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Universität Bielefeld
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Training Groups
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2004-12-31 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/375535?language=en
• 关键词: GRK; 1049; Archives; Power; Knowledge

In recent years the release of files has become a highly explosive topic, both in terms of academic politics as well as politics in general.Some of the most intense debates in recent times, such as the controversy about the Wehrmacht, Nazi gold in Switzerland or the construction of biographies after the National Socialist era, have been triggered by newly released or newly interpreted archival material. With few exceptions, the actual repository of the files and its organisational structure, namely the archive, has not been the subject of in-depth academic attention, particularly so with regard to historians, even though their work is largely based upon the use of archives.The use of the term archive in current discussions, beyond the trend of Erinnerungskultur (culture of memory) and Wissenskultur (culture of knowledge), is also due to the momentary shift of the character of archives. This is reflected in the change of emphasis from preservation to flow of data, from localisation in one particular area to a wider, almost arbitrary availability, from the process of archiving to navigating. This development is alternately condemned as the climax of de-sensualisation in the age of information technology, or is celebrated as the democratised, borderless access to data for everyone. However, the current situation, while problematic, nevertheless makes the archive an interesting subject in itself. The new digital stores that promised to convert the vertical and hierarchical order of knowledge into a more horizontal and democratic shape have been proved to be untenable, as far as the preservation and transmission of saved data is concerned. A society that works primarily with memory machinery runs the risk of losing its memory if a malfunction of storage facilities occurs.The Research Training Group seizes upon the current interest in historical organisation of archival knowledge and attempts to investigate it along three lines of inquiry: Firstly, the collection, stabilisation and use of archiveable and archived material; secondly, the processes of inclusion and exclusion which rule the archival process, namely the selection of archived material and the control of its use; thirdly, the misuse, destruction and forgery of archived material.

近年来，无论是在学术政治还是在一般政治方面，档案的公开都已成为一个极具爆炸性的话题。近年来一些最激烈的争论，如关于国防军的争论，纳粹在瑞士的黄金或国家社会主义时代后传记的构建，都是由新发布或新解释的档案材料引发的。除了少数例外，档案的实际存放处及其组织结构，即档案馆，一直没有得到深入的学术关注，特别是关于历史学家，即使他们的工作主要是基于对档案的使用。除了记忆文化和知识文化的趋势外，档案馆的性质也发生了暂时的变化。这反映在重点从保存到数据流动，从一个特定领域的本地化到更广泛的，几乎任意的可用性，从存档到导航的过程。这一发展交替地被谴责为信息技术时代去感觉化的高潮，或者被庆祝为每个人都能无国界地获取数据的民主化。然而，目前的情况，虽然有问题，但使档案本身成为一个有趣的主题。新的数字存储承诺将知识的垂直和等级秩序转变为更横向和民主的形式，但就保存和传输所保存的数据而言，这种新的数字存储已被证明是站不住脚的。一个主要使用记忆机器的社会，如果存储设施发生故障，就有失去记忆的危险。研究培训小组抓住当前对档案知识历史组织的兴趣，并试图沿着沿着三条调查路线进行调查：第一，可存档和存档材料的收集、稳定和使用;第二，纳入和排除的过程，这是档案过程的主导因素，即选择存档材料和控制其使用;第三，滥用、销毁和伪造存档材料。