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A document (noun from latin documentum [second declension, gen document?]: lesson, instruction, warning), is a bounded physical or digital representation of a body of information designed with the capacity (and usually intent) to communicate. A document may manifest symbolic, diagrammatic or sensory-representational information. To document (verb) is to produce a document artifact by collecting and […]

The Western archive is both an epistemological and imperial space.  As Jacques Derrida explains in Archive Fever, the archive is exemplary of the collusion between Empire and Enlightenment that constitutes modernity: “there is no political power without control of the archive,” he writes. (Derrida 1999)  Therefore the archive is not only the guardian of historical […]