25 Archives
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Introduction
Dig into the archives of humanity in order to discover the complicated but humble origins of our lofty convictions.
(Foucault, as read by Veyne 2010: 54)
What constitutes an archive is not a settled matter.1 To start with, an archive can be widely understood as a collection of data organized as records and the physical space where they are stored. The idea of record, however, deserves a short comment. Records are not simply a register of statements but constitute evidence of ways of thinking and ways of relating to the world. In other words, records are evidence of imaginaries, and imaginaries denote ways of understanding what is real and how that reality matters. ...
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