Archiving the Commons

Deadline extended till December 20, 2022

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

“The moment of the archive,” Stuart Hall writes, “represents the end of a certain kind of creative innocence, and the beginning of a new stage of self-consciousness, of self-reflexivity in an artistic movement” (2001: 89). This panel engages the moment of the archive in a time of planetary emergency. How do artists, scholars, curators, librarians, and other archive-builders constitute a record of …