The Ordinariness of The Archive  

Oleh:

Osborne, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 12 no. 2 (May 1999), page 51–64.
Topik: archive; credibility; Foucault; memory; public; Tocqueville
Fulltext: 51.pdf (189.69KB)

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This article argues that the notion of the archive is of some value for those interested in the history of the human sciences. Above all, the archive is a means of generating ethical and epistemological credibility. The article goes on to suggest that there are three aspects to modern archival reason: a principle of publicity whereby archival information is made available to some or other kind of public; a principle of singularity according to which archival reason focuses upon questions of detail; and a principle of mundanity, whereby the privileged focus of archival reason is said to be the commonplace dimension of everyday life.

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