de.hypothesesApr 10

How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?

Natalija ArlauskaitÄ— views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.

https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579

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How to Look at File Photographs: Archive, Optical Citizenship, and Documentary Art

How are film and photographic documents produced by various repressive regimes used in their own context and later reinterpreted? As a researcher in visual studies, I analyze archives and their evolution somewhat differently than...

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de.hypothesesMar 31

The city of Grozny, located in the North Caucasus, is home to Russia's most colonial and most fascinating archive.

Walter Sperling argues that colonial archives in former imperial peripheries not only help us discover the voices of subalterns: They also allow us to study the metropolis and its knowledge production from a decentered perspective 👇

https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2144

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A Small Mosque and the Big Russian Archive: Towards a Postcolonial History of Knowledge Production

Like some colleagues, I have conducted research not only in the Russian capitals, but also in the multiethnic Volga provinces.[1] But it was in the Caucasus that I truly grasped the extent to which...

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