‘Something is Happening Here and You Don't Know What it is’: Jacques Derrida Unplugged
‘Something is Happening Here and You Don't Know What it is’: Jacques Derrida Unplugged
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“这里正在发生一些事情，但你不知道它是什么”：雅克·德里达拔掉插头
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2005
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V. Harris
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2004年10月10日上午，我站在阿姆斯特丹一家旅馆的前台，听到雅克·德里达去世的消息。在我前面的是酒店经理，他在读着我在南非的伙伴给我留下的电话留言：“德里达去世了。他看了看我茫然的表情，然后轻声说：“我对你失去亲人感到非常遗憾。“我知道德里达身体不太好，当然，我也知道他不可能永远坚持下去。但我似乎立刻置身于在我脚下张开的深渊之中。在此后的日子里，我意识到，早在他去世前就开始的哀悼将永远伴随着我。不应该通过“一个事件”来实现这一点——1998年，我听到德里达提出这样的论点：“档案保管员的工作……是哀悼的工作。我不是要在20世纪思想家的万神殿中标记德里达的地位，也不是要在最广泛的意义上暗示他对智力努力的重要性。只要指出一点就够了：他是那个时代最杰出的公共知识分子之一；他对许多学科和专业都产生了深远的影响；在他生命的最后十年里，他坚持我们所说的档案话语；而且，他被广泛认为是许多人公认的智力工作档案转折的关键推动者。我在这篇文章中的目的是一个更谦虚的、双重的目的：对他的作品及其对我们称之为档案的领域的意义提出个人的欣赏。
I heard of Jacques Derrida’s death on the morning of 10 October 2004, standing at the reception desk of an Amsterdam hotel. Before me was the hotel manager, reading a phone message left for me by my partner in South Africa: ‘Derrida has died.’ He absorbed my blank expression for a few seconds, then said softly: ‘I’m very sorry for your loss.’ I knew that Derrida had not been well and, of course, I knew that he could not keep going forever. But instantly I seemed to be within the abyss which had yawned beneath me. And in the days thereafter I realised that the mourning which started long before his death would stay with me forever. It shouldn’t have taken ‘an event’ to bring this realisation—in 1998 I had heard Derrida making the argument that ‘the work of the archivist . . . is the work of mourning.’ It is not for me to mark Derrida’s position in the pantheon of 20th-century thinkers, nor to suggest his significance to intellectual endeavour in the broadest sense. Suffice it to note that: he was one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his era; he had a profound influence on a wide range of disciplines and professions; in the last decade of his life he spoke insistently to what we name archival discourses; and he is widely regarded as a key mover in what has been recognised by many as an archival turn in intellectual work. My aim in this essay is a more modest, dual one: to offer a personal appreciation of his work and its significance to that terrain we call archival.