Archive That, Comrade!

After a brief introduction that sets the contemporary scene of “archive fever,” this book considers the political legacy of 1960s counterculture for what it reveals about the process of commemoration. How far can the archive serve as a platform for dialogue and debate between different generations of activists in a culture that fetishizes the evanescent present, practices a profound amnesia about its counterfactual past, and forecloses the sociological imagination of an alternative future? Can the Left establish its own autonomous model of commemoration?

Dupa o scurta introducere care stabileste scena contemporana a „febrei arhivei”, aceasta carte considera mostenirea politica a contraculturii din anii 1960 pentru ceea ce dezvaluie despre procesul de comemorare. Cat de departe poate arhiva sa serveasca drept platforma pentru dialog si dezbatere intre diferite generatii de activisti intr-o cultura care fetiseaza prezentul evanescent, practica o amnezie profunda cu privire la trecutul sau contrafactual si impiedica imaginatia sociologica a unui viitor alternativ?