6. Philippe Beck in conversation with Gorica Orsholits and Torgeir Fjeld

This episode is a recording of Philippe Beck in conversation with Gorica Orsholits and Torgeir Fjeld on the topic of Documentaries: electronic speleology and the archive of the future. Philippe Beck, in his latest book of prose – Documentaries – brought together rewritten texts from his Facebook news feed running from March 27. 2015, to July 7. 2024. He created new stories, a book of documentaries which contains traces of the past, erasures, losses and heterotopias. It is a work of poetics and political meditation, criticism and evocation. It seems that this exploration of the electronic archive and media-driven friendships reveals a world of complex relationships, between participants: people and the institution of Facebook, where meaning is constantly deferred and inherent tensions and contradictions create dense discursive networks of stories, particularly in the realm of the political. These stories became inspirations for Philippe Beck's book of poetry Abstraite et Plaisantine.