This seminar offers a wide-ranging exploration of the 'archive.' Drawing from ethnography, social theory, philosophy, photography, and literature, we will examine the archive's diverse material, narratological, and structural dimensions; its epistemological, political, and representational functions; processes of recuperation and archivization; and related domains of experience, loss, memory, and absence.
5 units · Letter (ABCD/NP)
This seminar offers a wide-ranging exploration of the 'archive.' Drawing from ethnography, social theory, philosophy, photography, and literature, we will examine the archive's diverse material, narratological, and structural dimensions; its epistemological, political, and representational functions; processes of recuperation and archivization; and related domains of experience, loss, memory, and absence.
Offered in Spring 2027 at Stanford University.