Imagine I have clapped.
Now tell me where does this event exist?
Few answers which come to me at first instance are -
1. You clapped.
2. If someone or a CCTV had recorded it, it exist there.
3. A photograph of me clapping.
and so on...
The idea that the event exist in memory is an idea that I don't consider because it cannot be communicated, for it to be communicated it needs to be articulated in some sharable form. But yet the form which will be generated is in a different form, which means it has a different grammatology and hence it differs from the "actual" event. The articulated form thus becomes a representation of the event, it is as much complete in itself as much it forces you to relate itself to an event in past/an idea. Even this blog is a representation of the idea. An idea of photograph or video is put as a narration/text/description, which again changes its form and thus is differs from the photograph itself.
Also, the idea of "reality" or "actual" thing is very superficial because it never exist. Things change their form every milli second, it is in a constant from of change. Thus, ideas exist in a constant reference of past and future. This puts in to a further question of when/where did an event exist, it exist in the different archival forms (which now comes contrary to the first point of the relation between event and the archive).
Now tell me where does this event exist?
Few answers which come to me at first instance are -
1. You clapped.
2. If someone or a CCTV had recorded it, it exist there.
3. A photograph of me clapping.
and so on...
The idea that the event exist in memory is an idea that I don't consider because it cannot be communicated, for it to be communicated it needs to be articulated in some sharable form. But yet the form which will be generated is in a different form, which means it has a different grammatology and hence it differs from the "actual" event. The articulated form thus becomes a representation of the event, it is as much complete in itself as much it forces you to relate itself to an event in past/an idea. Even this blog is a representation of the idea. An idea of photograph or video is put as a narration/text/description, which again changes its form and thus is differs from the photograph itself.
Also, the idea of "reality" or "actual" thing is very superficial because it never exist. Things change their form every milli second, it is in a constant from of change. Thus, ideas exist in a constant reference of past and future. This puts in to a further question of when/where did an event exist, it exist in the different archival forms (which now comes contrary to the first point of the relation between event and the archive).
