After Accumulation
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After Accumulation (2021–2023)
The interdisciplinary working group “After Accumulation” critically engaged with the archive, its practices and theories from the perspective of different fields of study. Understanding the archive as a desire-knowledge-complex, the project investigated the archive as a site of institutionalised knowledge preservation, as a space for material collections and as an ambivalent layering of the conservation and decontextualisation/recontextualisation of knowledge production. It also explored the archive’s dynamics that make it complicit in acts of opacity, erasure and withdrawal. Grown out of the Cluster’s Diversity Working Group, “After Accumulation” comprised a series of public workshops, a reading group and internal workshops dedicated to unlearning discriminatory practices in research, writing and teaching in the academic context.
For more information about the project, please visit the project website.
Participants: Dr. Lindsey Drury, Sima Ehrentraut, Karina Rocktäschel, Dr. Samira Spatzek, Dr. Nina Tolksdorf