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Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 4, Number 1, January 2004
- pp. 9-25
- 10.1353/pla.2004.0015
- Article
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Creative and compelling theoretical formulations of the archive have emerged from a host of disciplines in the last decade. Derrida and Foucault, as well as many other humanists and social scientists, have initiated a broadly interdisciplinary conversation about the nature of the archive. This literature suggests a confluence of interests among scholars, archivists, and librarians that is fueled by a shared preoccupation with the function and fate of the historical and scholarly record. The following essay provides an exploration and overview of this archival discourse.