'History': lecture by Mark Cousins, 29th November, 2002

Extent: 1 audio cassette, 4 digital files (681 MB )

Comprises audio recording of a lecture entitled 'History' given by Mark Cousins on the 29th November, 2002. The recordings consist of an 90 mins audio cassette, 2 digital preservation files (570 MB, .wav format) and 2 digital access files (111 MB .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 47min 23sec.

Copyright: Architectural Association

Creator: Mark Cousins

Admin History: The recording is of the 6th lecture in the series entitled 'The Past', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA General Studies programme, 2002-2003. In this lecture, Mark Cousins argues that the discourse of history does not have a sole jurisprudence over the issue of past. He attempts to take the route of psychoanalysis to highlight and compare the concept of the past in both discourses of analysis and history. Cousins then elaborates on the notion of 'cause and causality' and what he terms the mechanism of negation, the negative object and the idea of truth. Cousins concludes that, to the discipline of history, the past is in the past as an event, but for the discipline of psychoanalysis the hierarchical timeline of past and future is blurred and therefore the past still exists, not as a representation but as a reality.

Custodial History: Audio cassette recording was made by the AA Audio Visual Departement and retained by the AA Photo Library until 2019, when it was transferred to the AA Archives.

Aquisition: Audio cassette was transferred from the AA Photo Libary to the AA Archives in 2019. Digital preservation and access copies were created by the AA Archives in 2021.

Archive Note: Catalogue description by Samaneh Karimelahi

Publication Note: AA Events List, Week 9, 25th November - 1st December, 2002