This isn’t really a post, it is a reminder; a memorial.
As Minus Plato prepares for its 10 year anniversary (and potential conclusion) next year in May 2022, I am thinking a lot about that ‘Minus’ and what it means (and, specifically, what it means for me).
On reading Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, I was struck by (trembled before?) his description of ‘the scholar of the future’ as someone who is willing to listen to and talk to ghosts.
At the same time, I have been thinking about the library (and its double, the scholar – c.f Daniel Dennett ‘A Scholar is a Library’s Way of Making Another Library’).
- The Minus Plato Library
- The Empty Days Library
- Potu Faitautusi
This is all I can write here for now, but I may return to add to this post as a kind of hauntology of the archive of Minus Plato.
Possibly after 2022.
– Richard Fletcher aka Minus Plato, July 21, 2021
