ARTS 2090 week 5

ARTS2090- week 5 Archive Fever

Come to think about what Jacques Derrida said about how archives have changed the way people lived kind of make sense. People store useful information for the future access, Bible for example, was recorded down for later generations to read. Consider what if Bible was passed down through orality? There should have been different versions of Bibles. Fortunately, thanks to archives, there is only one version of Bible. What I am trying to say here is that archives helped to standardize literature. However, think about how archives have changed the way people lived. For me, everything. Study definitely has been affected by archive fever. Academic transcript, a piece of paper that is the most important thing than any other things when applying for an university. Hand written exams, books, and libraries, all of them are in different forms of archives. In addition, the world today is made up of different archives. Social structure for example, was marked by the amount of money people have in their bank accounts, thus, criminal records helped to separate good and bad people.

Archives in a way helped people to become civilized. Even before the printing press, people knew how to store information in different formats for example such as the cave paintings. It is after the printing press that escalated the amount of data stored in archives, it was then followed by the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the Renaissance. Archives in another word, is the data base of the entire world. It stores history.