A review by weepywillows
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida

4.0

Derrida poses many good ideas about the archive. I had to read this for a class about archiving a "queer" past and it was, of course, seminal to the class discussion. However, as is expected for Derrida, it was such a challenge to get through, willing myself to sit down and process all of the information was incredibly difficult; at some points I was convinced I wasn't reading in English. The content becomes even more impressive when one think about the fact that this was a lecture.
Derrida was undoubtedly an amazing thinker of our time and I'm convinced that I absolutely must read more of his work, but maybe this time with a glass of wine.