"9. Archives are governed by the Laws of Intellectual Propriety as opposed to Property
As the monetary value of the global information economy gains more importance, the abstract value of images get articulated within the language of property and rights. The language of intellectual property normativizes our relationship to knowledge and culture by naturalizing and universalizing narrow ideas of authorship, ownership and property. This language has extended from the world of software databases to traditional archives where copyright serves as Kafka’s gatekeeper and the use of the archive becomes a question of rights management.
Beyond the status of the archive as property lies the properties of the archive which can destabilize and complicate received notions of rights.
They establish their own code of conduct, frame their own rules of access, and develop an ethics of the archive which are beyond the scope of legal imagination. If the archive is a scene of invention then what norms do they develop for themselves which do not take for granted a pre determined language of rights. How do practices of archiving destabilize ideas of property while at the same time remaining stubbornly insistent on questions of ‘propriety’.
Intellectual propriety does not establish any universal rule of how archives collect and make available their artifacts. It recognizes that the archivist play a dual role: They act as the trustees of the memories of other people, and as the transmitters of public knowledge. This schizophrenic impulse prevents any easy settling into a single norm.
Propriety does not name a set of legislated principles of proper etiquette, instead it builds on the care and responsibility that archivists display in their preservation of cultural and historical objects. The digital archive translates this ethic of care into an understanding of the ecology of knowledge, and the modes through which such an ecology is sustained through a logic of distribution, rather than mere accumulation.
It remembers the history of archivists being described as pirates, and scans its own records, files and database to produce an account of itself. In declaring its autonomy, archives seek to produce norms beyond normativity, and ethical claims beyond the law."
—from Pad.Ma, 10 Theses on the Archive
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Both matters involved great destruction, fire and horror. They are ultimately linked in the 4th
Dimensional realm through a science or technology used by illuminati elites , which for lack of a
better word we must call black magic. www.enterprisemission.com/corbett.htm . They use the
energy discharged through blood , fire and pain into the 4th Dimension to then retransmit it
into our Universe to effectuate changes in accordance with their will and objectives. That is why
these "senseless" crimes are not senseless...they have power and meaning -for those who serve
evil. This is the answer to why the terroristic slaughter and endless nightmares continue. Now,
the question is - how do we stop it?
Mars as noted in the last link is associated with Tetrahedrons. We are in a war. Sadly, most
people do not even know who the real enemy is. The word must be spread.
Time is short.
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