The Dora Lange Archive: Jacques Derrida Watches True Detective

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Dora Lange Archive

T2 - Jacques Derrida Watches True Detective

AU - Holm, Isak Winkel

AU - Bjering, Jens Christian Borrebye

PY - 2016/8/1

Y1 - 2016/8/1

N2 - The first season of Nic Pizzolatto's True Detective (2014) is not only a show about a murder, but also a show about how to gather and organize information in an archive. Having identified two archival problems—its temporal and topical extension—the article turns to Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever: a Freudian Impression in order to explain how the archiving problems of the crime investigation are, in fact, intrinsic to any archiving practice. Lastly, the article addresses the political significance of the show's archiving problems by help of Derrida's text on the American Constitution and of Hardt and Negri's Empire.

AB - The first season of Nic Pizzolatto's True Detective (2014) is not only a show about a murder, but also a show about how to gather and organize information in an archive. Having identified two archival problems—its temporal and topical extension—the article turns to Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever: a Freudian Impression in order to explain how the archiving problems of the crime investigation are, in fact, intrinsic to any archiving practice. Lastly, the article addresses the political significance of the show's archiving problems by help of Derrida's text on the American Constitution and of Hardt and Negri's Empire.

U2 - 10.1111/jpcu.12435

DO - 10.1111/jpcu.12435

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0022-3840

VL - 49

SP - 705

EP - 721

JO - Journal of Popular Culture

JF - Journal of Popular Culture

IS - 4

ER -