"Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo," (What is not on file is
not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized
icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be
over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to
examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a
media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal
themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing
practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate
and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in
Vismann's "Files" ranges from the work of the Roman magistrates to
the concern over one's own file, as expressed in the context of the
files kept by the East German State Security. The book concludes
with a look at the computer architecture in which all the stacks,
files, and registers that had already created order in medieval and
early modern administrations make their reappearance.
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