Derrida calls this the
archontic principle an act of consignation that combines depositing material with "gathering together through signs" (Archive Fever 3).
The third chapter, "The Archive of New Stories" thus consciously selects and discusses stories whose purpose are not subversive but are still transformative, providing a discussion of fan fiction as "
archontic" (13) literature--that is, texts that are neither derivative nor subordinate, but rather that expand a textual world.
The publication concludes with Erin Hollis's chapter on "
archontic" fan fiction.
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Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction." Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet.
archontic. Abigail Derecho,
Archontic Literature: A Definition, a
the
archontic principle of legitimization, without criteria of classification and of hierarchization." (2) Technology seems alternatively to have amplified or to have run around Derrida's sine qua non of archival principles.
The latter is haunted by the '
archontic injunction to guard and gather the archive' (Derrida, 1996: 77).
See, e.g., Abigail Derecho,
Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction, in FAN FICTION, supra note 7, at 61.