Abstract
This article analyzes the documentality of memories in order to ground further consideration of memory for historical research in the post-truth era. The article compares discussions of the document in document theory to those in French historical epistemology in order to establish what is a reliable documentary source. Formerly, reliability was rooted in the paradigm of truth and the authenticity guaranteed by institutions and scientists. In today's post-truth era, these foundations are questioned. This article suggests that we consider the production of historical narratives as a design process, and that we evaluate the truthfulness of a source according to three regimes of documentality: textualization, auctorialization and documentarization.
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Scopsi, Claire
(2018)
"The Documentality of Memory in the Post-Truth Era,"
Proceedings from the Document Academy: Vol. 5
:
Iss.
2
, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/5/2/4
Available at:
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol5/iss2/4
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.35492/docam/5/2/4
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