Perhaps this is of interest.
"But the example of E-mail is privileged in my opinion for a more important and
obvious reason: because electronic mail today, even more than the fax, is on
the way to transforming the entire public and private space of humanity, and
first of all the limit between the private, the secret (private or public), and
the public or the phenomenal. It is not only a technique, in the ordinary and
limited sense of the term: at an unprecedented rhythm, in quasi-instantaneous
fashion, this instrumental possibility of printing, of conservation, and of
destruction of the archive must inevitably be accompanied by juridical and thus
political transformation. These affect nothing less than property rights,
publishing and reproduction rights."
Reproduced for you this afternoon from Jacques Derrida, _Archive Fever: A
Freudian Impression_, trans. Eric Prenowitz (Chicago, 1995), 17.
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