From the archive-effect to the sense effect: the theory of enunciation put to the test of mediality

Abstract

This essay questions the heuristic value of the enunciation theory for the mediality studies. It is a question of specifying the internal articulation that is hidden behind the notion of media and, on the other hand, receiving and analyzing that the contemporary situation, which has been defined as post-media, brings to the stability of the media system. The approach of these two axes analyzes a strategy of innovative audiovisual composition: a series of works that mix in a critical way documents from different times and insist on the separations concerning the space-time coordinates and the generic regimes. The nature of these separations and resulting effects require us to reflect on the concept of archives: how its constitution changed, what is this role in investments, conservation and production of meaning in the digital age.