A number of ‘textualities’, which are listed below as suggested references, inspire this project. These include both texts focusing on the archival praxis (approached from a theoretical, philosophical and/or technological standpoint) and texts expanding on the project’s main traits, i.e. the Matri-archive and the Mediterranean.

Adnan, Etel, Sea and Fog, New York, Callicoon, Nightboat Books, 2012.

Appadurai, Arjun, “Archive and Aspiration”, in J. Brouven, A. Mulder (eds), Information in Alive. Art and Theory on Archiving and Retrieving Data, Rotterdam, NAI Publisher, 2003.

Barad, Karen, “Posthumanist Performativity: Towards an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter”, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, No. 28, 2003, pp. 801-31.

Braidotti, Rosi, Il Postumano. La vita oltre il sé, oltre la specie, oltre la morte, Roma, Derive Approdi, 2014.

Basbaum, Ricardo, “Within the Organic Line and After”, in A. Alberro, S. Buchmann (eds), Art After Conceptual Art, Vienna and Cambridge, MA and London, Generali Foundation and The MIT Press, 2006, pp. 87-99.

Bellagamba, Alice, Migrazioni. Dal Lato dell’Africa, Lungavilla (PV), Altravista, 2011.

Bennett, Jane, Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things, Durham NC, Duke Press, 2010.

Biemann, Ursula, “Egyptian Chemistry: From Postcolonial to Post-humanist Matters”, in I. Chambers et all (eds), The Postcolonial Museum: The Arts of Memories and the Pressures of History, Furnham, Ashgate, 2014.

Butler, Judith, Bodies that Matter. On the Discursive Limits of Sex, New York, Routledge, 1993;

___________, Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death, New York, Columbia University Press, 2000.

Carotenuto, Silvana, La Lingua di Cleopatra. Traduzioni e sopravvivenze decostruttive, Milano, Marinetti, 2009.

Carotenuto Silvana, Manuela Esposito, Annalisa Piccirillo: “L’archivio futuro: danza, donne e dimora”, in Estetica. Studi e ricerche “Per un museo postcoloniale”, No. 1 (Aprile 2012). Titoli interventi: Archè e visione femminile: una chora di lingua; La Natura è archiviabile? Le pratiche di una memoria femminile; Ricor-danze: l’archiviazione sospesa di Isabel Rocamora.

Chambers, Iain, Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity, Durham, Duke University Press, 2008.

Cianelli Alessandra, Ferrara Beatrice (a cura di), Postcolonial Matters tra gesti politici e scritture poetiche, L’Orientale UPress, in corso di stampa (2015).

Cixous, Hélène, “The Laugh of the Medusa”, Signs, Vol. 1 n. 4 (Summer 1976).

Curti, Lidia, La voce dell’altra. Scritture ibride tra femminismo e postcoloniale, Roma, Meltemi, 2008.

Cvetkovich, Ann, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality and Lesbian Public Cultures, Durham, Duke University Press, 2003.

Derrida Jacques, McDonald V. Christie, “‘Choreographies’, An Interview with Jacques Derrida”, Diacritics, Vol. 12, n. 2 (1982), pp. 66-76.

____________, Mal d’archive. Une impression freudienne, Paris, Galilée, 1995;

____________, Le monolinguisme de l’autre, Paris, Galilée, 1996;

____________, Prégnances: lavis de Colette Deblé, peintures, Mont de Marsan, L’Atelier des Brisants, 2004;

____________, Geneses, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius. The Secret of the Archive, New York, Columbia University Press, 2008.

Djebar, Assia, La Disparition de la langue française, Paris, Albin Michel, 2003.

El Saadawi, Nawal, Una figlia di Iside. L’autobiografia di Nawal El Saadawi, Roma, Nutrimenti, 2002;

______________, Dissidenza e scrittura. Conversazione sul mio itinerario intellettuale, Milano, Spirali, 2008.

Ferrara, Beatrice (ed.), Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices, Milano, Politecnico di Milano, 2012. http://www.mela-project.eu/upl/cms/attach/20130222/164313318_4323.pdf

Finocchi, Daniela (a cura di), Lingua Madre Duemilaquattordici. Racconti di donne straniere in Italia, Torino, Seb27, 2014.

Franco Susanne, Nordera Marina (a cura di), Ricordanze, Memoria in Movimento e Coreografie della Storia, Torino, Utet, 2010.

Freeman, Barbara Claire, The Feminine Sublime Gender and Excess in Women’s Fiction, Berkley, UC Press, 1997.

Foucault, Michael, L’archéologie du savoir, Gallimard, Paris, 1969.

Gatens, Moira (ed), Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza, USA, The Penn State Press, 2009.

Grosz, Elizabeth, Time Travels. Feminism, Nature, Power, Australia, Allen & UIN, 2005;

_____________, Chaos, Territory, Art. Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007;

_____________, Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art, Durham NC, Duke Press, 2011;

_____________, Architecture from the Outside. Essays on Virtual and Real Spaces, Massachusetts, London, The MIT Press Cambridge, 2011.

Hamilton, Carolyn at. all (eds), Refiguring the Archive, Dordrecht, Boston, London, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002.

Haraway, Donna, When Species Meet, Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Ianniciello, Celeste, “Othering: Art Ecologies and (Im)possible Repairs”, in I. Chambers et all (eds), The Ruined Archive, Milano, Politecnico di Milano, 2014. http://www.mela-project.eu/.pdf

Irigaray, Luce, Amante marine de Friedrich Nietzsche, Paris, De Minuit, 1980.

___________, L’oubli de l’air chez Martin Heidegger, Paris, De Minuit, 1983.

Jabès, Edmond, Il libro dell’ospitalità, Milano, Cortina, 1991.

Kaplan, Caren, “The Politics of Location as Transnational Feminist Critical Practice”, in I. Grewal and C. Kaplan (eds), Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1994, pp. 137-52.

Kristeva, Julia, Tales of Love, New York, Columbia University Press, 1987.

Maglioni Silvia, Thompson Graeme, In Search of UIQ, 72 min. HDV, Phantom Production, 2013.

Manning, Erin, Always More Than One. Individuation’s Dance, Durham, Duke University Press, 2013.

Mbembe, Achille, “Necropolitics”, in Public Culture, Vol. 1, No. 15, Durham, Duke University Press, 2003.

Mernissi Fatima, Karawan. Dal deserto al web, Milano, Giunti editore, 2004.

Minh-ha, Trinh T., Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism, and the Boundary Event, London and New York, Routledge, 2010.

Nancy, Jean Luc, Corpus, New York, Fordham University Press, 2008.

Parisi, Luciana, “From Pleasure to Desire: Involution and Anti-climax in Octavia Butler’s Dawn”, 2012. Available at: http://virtualfutures.co.uk/archive/papers/pleasure-to-desire/

Phelan, Peggy, Unmarked. The Politics of Performance, London and New York, Routledge, 1993.

Piccirillo, Annalisa, “Visions of Performance in Exile: The Book, the Exhibition and the Digital Archive”, Anglistica Vol. 17, No. 1 (2013), pp. 79-90.

______________, “Disseminare gesti pe(n)santi, archiviare danze di gravità”, Danza e Ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni, Dipartimento delle Arti, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, (in corso di stampa, 2015).

Plant, Sadie, Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, Fourth Estate, London, 1997.

Preciado, Beatriz, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, New York City, The Feminist Press, 2013.

Reason, Matthew, Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance, New York, Palgrave Macmillian, 2006.

Rich, Adrienne, “Notes toward a Politics of Location”, in Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1984, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1986, pp. 210-31.

Rogoff, Irit, Terra Infirma. Geography’s Visual Culture, London and New York, Routledge, 2000.

Said, W. Edward, Orientalism, New York, Vintage, 1978.

Schneider, Rebecca, Performing Remains, art and war in times of theatrical reenactment, London and New York, Routledge, 2011.

Taylor, Diana, The Archive and the Repertoire, Duke University Press, Durham 2003.