Dispositivos de informação: Arquivos, memórias e informação

Abstract

The piece of research analyzes the dynamics of information phenomenon as a development tool and the logic of the present values in the tables of memory built and managed within the archival spaces. Therefore, this study favors the notion of "dispositif " as elaborated in the work of Michel Foucault and its derivations as "information dispositif ". The concepts and notions employed are developed in a unique perspective of the interrelation between Information Science/Philosophy/Social Sciences. They are letting you know that the movement of information, archive and memories, when activated within these "dispositive", delineate specific types of knowledge, power and subjects undergoing social, political and economic specific. It concluded at the end that the collective memory is constituted as a "dispositive" made up of real speech shown in file condition, that is, as a set of rules which give emerging at a certain time of a type of speech can to act on men, making them subject to certain set of memories.