O desafio da representação arquivística diante do regime estético de Jacques Rancière

Abstract

This work explores the archival representation statute’s as it can be thought from the notions of representative and aesthetic regimes of Jacques Rancière. It addresses, therefore, the possible connections between historiographical and archival truths from the point of view of aesthetic experience. Its theoretical nature supports the exploratory and reflective positions of this research on the perspectives and reconfiguration of visibility systems. These regimes of identification of the arts characterize forms of acknowledgment of the sensitive and, furthermore, they place a particular way of politics, acknowledging the productions of meanings that are established by unprecedented procedures in historiographical writing. In this way, the aesthetic thought of the philosopher offers conceptual tools that question the testimonies privilege’s while attesting to the truth of the events. It places the challenge of understanding the convergence between reality and fiction when working with the sources. It encloses, therefore, on the representative notion of the nature of archive, thinking primarily from the notion of representative regime, subsidized by Aristotelian conventions, as the primacy of action in the harmonization of the indicators in a successive chain or the idea of creative gesture that imprints an intelligible form on matter. The results of this analysis indicate that the search for full representative fidelity, which systematizes the presentation of real in a consistent hierarchy, will be subsequently challenged by a structure of equality that intertwist signs and sensibilities developing another form of the political actor’s perception. Rancière's notion of aesthetic regime allows us to think of this movement as transporting aesthetic questions to historiographical writing. This rearrangement creates unprecedented connections between the sensitive world and its representations allowing to hear the previously inaudible words of a marginalized public.