The Lexicon · Genealogy · Contemporary
MEILLASSOUX, QUENTIN
b. 1967
Ancestrality (The Archive Before the Reader)
Meillassoux: there are statements about events anterior to all consciousness — the ancestral — that the correlationist tradition cannot accommodate. The GAI contains records of artists who have not been read. The entry exists; the visitor has not yet arrived. The pre-read state is the ancestral of the archive. The fact does not wait for the reader. The reader is supplementary. The archive is.