The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall

Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3893751
AutoresE A Povinelli (0000-0002-8119-7938)
Año2011
Volumen22
Número1
Páginas146-171
Fecha de publicación2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
Revistadifferences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/10407391-1218274
OpenAlexW2054550807
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas42
Referencias citadas14

This article probes a set of problems in the theory and practice of the postcolonial archive that has emerged as the author and her Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues have struggled to create a new media archive in rural northwest Australia. This archive does not as yet exist. If it existed as it is currently conceived, it would organize mixed (augmented) reality media on the basis of social media and operate it on smart phones. The smart phones would contain a small segment of the archive, which would be geotagged so that it could not run unless the phone was proximate to the site to which the information referred. This article argues that if "archive" is the name we give to the power to make and command what took place here or there, in this or that place, and thus what has an authoritative place in the contemporary organization of social life, the postcolonial new media archive cannot be merely a collection of digital artifacts reflecting a different, subjugated history. Instead, the postcolonial archive must directly address the problem of the endurance of the otherwise within-or distinct from-this form of power

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