Mal d'archive
On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4806876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dora Osborne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 372-386 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2014.0135 |
| OpenAlex | W1981993122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Archive Fever, Derrida opens a critical perspective on the status of the trace as that which remains with his reading of Gradiva, the Pompeian fantasy woman who is supposed to have left her singular toe-print in the ash of Vesuvius. This article returns to the figure of Gradiva as emblem for the non-coincidence of origin and trace, in order to outline the (increasingly troubling) archival aspects of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-project, a large-scale, decentralized memorial commemorating those deported under National Socialism. Returning to the site of a missed encounter, Demnig attempts to reinscribe the trace of those who vanished there. But as his project grows, it also shows signs of archive fever, betraying a desire to take possession of the trace of the other, and revealing how, as Derrida describes, the archive does not exist without the political control of memory
Art · Emblem · Literature · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics · Reading (process · German History and Society · History · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |