In his article Archive Fever Derrida suggests that the desire to preserve information is in some way a symptom of an inbuilt and unavoidable desire to destroy it. Drawing on Freud’s concepts of the pleasure principle and the death drive, Derrida argues that an information store (archive) on the one hand involves a desire to…More
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The Internet as hypertext or archive
Raises the question of how Derrida’s thinking about intertextuality has been applied to the InternetMore