Della Ratta, DonatellaDickinson, KayHaugbolle, Sune2023-02-072023-02-0720209789492302557https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod35-the-arab-archive-mediated-memories-and-digital-flows/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20429As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time, these facilities institute a globally dispersed reinforcement and recalibration of power, turning memory and knowledge into commodified and copyrighted goods. In The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows, activists, artists, filmmakers, producers, and scholars examine which images of struggle have been created, bought, sold, repurposed, denounced, and expunged. As a whole, these cultural productions constitute an archive whose formats are as diverse as digital repositories looked after by activists, found footage art documentaries, Facebook archive pages, art exhibits, doctoral research projects, and ‘controversial’ or ‘violent’ protest videos that are abruptly removed from YouTube at the click of a mouse by sub-contracted employees thousands of kilometers from where they were uploaded. The Arab Archive investigates the local, regional, and international forces that determine what materials, and therefore which pasts, we can access and remember, and, conversely, which pasts get erased and forgotten.<ul> <li><a href='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=8'>Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson, Sune Haugbolle: <i>00. INTRODUCTION</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=9'>Sune Haugbolle: <i>01. ARCHIVAL ACTIVISTS AND THE HYBRID ARCHIVES OF THE ARAB LEFT</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=22'>Mark R. Westmoreland: <i>02. TIME CAPSULES OF CATASTROPHIC TIMES</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=37'>mosireen_soursar: <i>03. 858: NO ARCHIVE IS INNOCENT. ON THE ATTEMPT OF ARCHIVING REVOLT</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=43'>Mitra Azar: <i>04. THE VIRTUOUS CIRCUITS BETWEEN UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD: DIGITAL AND ANALOG ARCHIVES AND THE CASE OF GRAFFITI ART IN REVOLUTIONARY EGYPT</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=62'>Mohammad Ali Atassi: <i>05. THE DIGITAL SYRIAN ARCHIVE BETWEEN VIDEOS AND DOCUMENTARY CINEMA</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=71'>Enrico De Angelis: <i>06. THE CONTROVERSIAL ARCHIVE: NEGOTIATING HORROR IMAGES IN SYRIA</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=91'>Hadi Al Khatib: <i>07. CORPORATIONS ERASING HISTORY: THE CASE OF THE SYRIAN ARCHIVE</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=101'>Donatella Della Ratta: <i>08. WHY THE SYRIAN ARCHIVE IS NO LONGER (ONLY) ABOUT SYRIA</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=117'>Ulrike Lune Riboni: <i>09. THE ‘FLÂNEUR’, THE ARCHAEOLOGIST, AND THE MISSING IMAGES: DOING RESEARCH WITH/ON ONLINE VIDEOS</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20429/TOD_35_Della-Ratta_ea_2020_Arab-Archive_.pdf#page=130'>Lulu Shamiyya: <i>10. THE VANISHED IMAGE</i></a></li>engArabArchiveMemoryMediation79110.25969/mediarep/19255