“Memories from Darkness” is a contribution to an emerging “archaeology of repression”. Focusing on the twentieth century, and on what Gonzalez-Ruibal has usefully called “supermodernity”, such approaches show how specialized technologies were developed and deployed to serve the ends of authoritarian regimes and state terror, with a lineage from German and Italian fascism, French colonialism in Algeria, a broad swathe of military governments in Latin America, and to the current “war on terror”. They also show how we can trace and reveal evidence for resistance in the context of an explicitly engaged archaeology that recognizes the valency of political action in shaping our understanding of the past and the implications of research for social justice and human rights. We can perhaps think of the overall project of an archaeology of repression and resistance as the construction of a new, virtual museum in which the assemblage of material evidence, oral testimony and documentary fragments both empowers those for who the history of repressive regimes has specific meaning and also serves as a set of references for questions of human rights today, and into the future. For in this circulating system of references the engagement with questions of justice and human rights in the present day is ineluctable. As Major General Anthony Taguba, who investigated torture at Abu Ghraib wrote in the preface of a 2008 report by Physicians for Human Rights: “after years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account” (quoted by Lewis 2008).