“When I Left Cuba: Exploring Totalitarian Subjectivity and Exile in Testimonies and Memories”
In Archival malaise, a Freudian impression (1997), the philosopher Jacques Derrida reflects on the political implications of the archive as testimony and limit, memory and absence, exclusion and narrative of history. These are issues of great current relevance, especially in the context of totalitarian regimes such as state socialism. Access to some of the documentary … Read more