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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Cultural resistance can take place in a vaginal library—a marginalized site of the abject that is in a constant state of disintegration. As much more than a metaphor, the vaginal library was an actual archive of subversive literature and other contraband materials created by women political prisoners during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983). The vaginal library is the most extreme form of what Jacques Derrida considers to be the archive in general—a coffin, a prison cell, a place that “leaves no monuments and bequeaths no documents of its own. In “In the Vaginal Library: A Lover’s Discourse,” I explore how culture is preserved, remembered, or lost during periods of political duress. I compare the US-based Center for Research Libraries Political Communications Web Archiving project with the clandestine archives of the Argentine dictatorship. The Political Communications Web Archiving project, a collaboration between NYU, U Texas, Stanford and Cornell Universities, is an attempt to capture and preserve the artifacts of contemporary political resistance around the world. But while the magazines, fliers, flow-charts, and pamphlets that characterized much Argentina’s cultural resistance under dictatorship were surely fragile—the paper remains disintegrate when buried in closets or in the ground, held in archives or carried vaginally—the communiqués of today’s marginal political movements (produced by individual activists, political parties, and radical organizations) are often born digitally. As such, they barely exist at all: made for the web, there is no necessary paper referent, and web sites can be shut down, links can go dead. What is the relationship between archives and political resistance in the digital age? And how do we undertake the recovery of people and ideas that are forgotten, ignored, forced out, or anonymous? The vaginal library is a real and figurative archive built by Argentines to protect a history that was erased from the official record. The Center for Library Research’s Political Communications Web Archive Project is a real and figurative archive built by Americans to protect histories that are largely not their own. At the heart of most forms of political resistance are documents that have been destroyed, voices that have been silenced, and histories that have been lost. In this paper, I analyze two separate attempts to protect against the ravages of our times.

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