Samtidsdokumentasjon: En spøkelseshistorie

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  • Odd Arne Berkaak

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3527

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The author first makes an attempt to deconstruct the notion of ’samtidsdokumentasjon’ (documentation of contemporary culture). He shows how the different ideological layers in the theory and practice of museal and archival ’documentation’ tend to disregard those elements of contemporary culture that are new and emerging. Ernst Bloch’s concept of ’Das noch-nicht Seins’ (’the not-yet in being’) is used to argue for a new focus in contemporary documentation. Those elements of our current environment which are coming into being and taking shape right before our eyes deserve our attention because the ephemeral discourse that surrounds them will not be retrievable in the future. Thus, essential material for the understanding of our own time will be lost. The conclusion is that it is urgent to docu- ment novelties, not monuments, because if they are not documented in the making, they will be lost to history for ever. 

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