This article re-examines the role of the death drive in Derrida’s Archive Fever in relation to archival theory. It brings Derrida’s more psychoanalytic claims about the dualistic tension between remembering and forgetting to the forefront and reconsiders the unquestioned faith in preservation. During a time when the impetus for cultural recovery is ubiquitous, the role of the death drive in the realization and survival of the archive is left unacknowledged. The “anarchival”, which alludes to the destructive forces of the archive, has been taken up more actively in the contemporary art setting than the archival setting. By lingering in the depths of this archival underside through the interpolation of critical theory and analysis of contemporary archival artworks, I hope to continue archival theory’s engagement with the humanities, and frame processes of deconstructing, destructing, undoing, and unbecoming as kinds of archival labour. This kind of labour is necessary in thinking through more nuanced approach to social justice in the archival setting.

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停留在“无政府状态”：作为损失和缺席指标的档案

本文重新审查了与档案理论相关的死亡驱动在德里达《档案狂热》中的作用。它把德里达关于记忆与遗忘之间的二元张力的更多精神分析论断带到了最前沿，并重新考虑了人们对保存的坚定信念。在无处不在的文化恢复动力之际，死亡驱动器在档案的实现和生存中的作用未被人们所认识。提到档案馆破坏力的“档案馆”在当代艺术环境中比档案馆环境更为活跃。通过对批判理论的插值和对当代档案艺术的分析，在档案底蕴的深处徘徊，我希望继续将档案理论与人文学科联系起来，并构筑解构，破坏，消亡和成为档案劳动的过程。在存档环境中，通过更细微的方法来思考社会正义时，这种劳动是必要的。