[Themaintainers] Themaintainers Digest, Vol 28, Issue 4

[Camille E. Acey]

It's only just be released so I've not read it. I am, however interested
to read it. From the interview I didn't feel like he was anti-archivist.
It just struck me more that he was against the idea of freezing the
archives and making them stale/staid institutions that failed to engage
or be relevant/valuable to the communities they have the most
potential/responsibility to serve and support. 

Camille 

On 2018-06-18 11:42, Tansey, Eira (tanseyem) wrote: 

> Thanks for sharing this link. Has anyone read Phil Cohen's book yet ("Archive that, Comrade!)" https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=931 [1])? 
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> After doing a very brief preview of the book, I am very curious to see whether Cohen indulges in what I've referred to as "archives without archivists," which is the propensity of those who are not archivists to go on about The Archive without engaging any of the decades-worth of theory and practice of working archivists. Other archivists, particularly Michelle Caswell, Rick Prelinger, and Terry Cook, have also pointed out this problem. 
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> Terry Cook himself noted the absence of archivists (the maintainers of archives!) from the constant theorization of The Archive: 
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> "In summary, despite the impressive external theorizing on the "archive" in recent historical writing, what is still missing is the voice of the archivist, who, after all, is the principal actor in defining, choosing, and constructing the archive that remains, and then in representing and presenting that surviving archival trace to researchers. Given the sensitivity of many of those same historians to the past marginalization from history of women, certain ethnic groups, the working classes, or First Nations peoples, it is all the more surprising that such historians studying the archive have marginalized the archivist. Can one imagine writing about the history of nursing or engineering without researching any of the literature produced by nurses or engineers? Yet in my reading of works by those few historians recently writing directly on the archive, I have almost never seen citations (with very rare and then very spotty exceptions) to any of the thousands of articles, boo
 ks
> , and published studies, let alone internal reports, produced by archivists, in English alone, in the past three decades, including no few such writings by archivists that from the inside both theorize the archive, the archives, and their historical evolution" (https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.74.2.xm04573740262424 [2]) 
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> https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-11-2018/ [4]
> How is radical memory transmitted from generation to generation? How does that transmission frequently fail -- and how might it better succeed? Anthropologist and veteran radical Phil Cohen discusses the politics of remembrance and archiving, from the Sixties to the present.
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Camille E. Acey
 http://camilleacey.com [6] 

_"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and
that is an act of political warfare." - _Audre Lorde 

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[1] https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&amp;p=931
[2] https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.74.2.xm04573740262424
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[4] https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-11-2018/
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