“What is the value of proof? What does it mean for something to be true? If a tree falls in the woods and pins a wood thrush to the earth, and she shrieks and shrieks but no one hears her, did she make a sound? Did she suffer? Who’s to say” Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
In the Dream House – etymology of archive
“The word archive Jacques Derrida tells us, comes from the ancient Greek work “the house of the ruler.” When I first learned about this etymology, I was taken with the use of house (a lover of haunted house stories, I’m a sucker for architecture metaphors), but it is the power, the authority, that is the most telling element. What is …
In the Dream House – Justice 1
“How do we direct our record keeping toward justice?” Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
In the Dream House – Archive 1
“But the nature of archival silence is that certain people’s narratives and their nuances are swallowed by history; we see only what pokes through because it is sufficiently salacious for the majority to pay attention.” Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House