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Materiality and Memory

Cornelia Vismann in Files suggests an intriguing hypothesis: the conditions for specific legalities are given essential form by the underlying materiality of information storage. The unique materiality of the scroll, the codex and the file made possible distinct legal forms: the magistrates of the Roman Republic, the universal code of empire and the biopolitical management of the nation-state. Vismann's insight was that the tactile way in which these material substances support memory gave essential structure to the forms of law.