Silencing the Past

Trouillot, M. (1995). Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1995

Link

https://archive.org/details/silencingpastpow0000trou

Cited from

philosophy

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Primes

• Absence as Information
  • Archives and history. The silences of the archive — what is not written, who is not represented, what was destroyed — are evidence of what record-keepers found unspeakable, unimportant, or unsafe.

    This sourceArgues that what archives omit, destroy, or fail to record is itself evidence of the power relations governing what could be said.

• Vantage-Induced Omission
  • … in non-reporting subcultures invisible. Machine-learning training-data collection has a vantage (web crawl, panel survey, sensor deployment), and the model is blind to regions unreachable from it, producing the distribution-shift failure family. Expert-witness disciplinary boundaries, historical archive composition,

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