Derrida, Foucault, and the Archiviolithics of History

From the tangled underroot of ideas that is Ezra Pound’s ‘paideuma’ to the textual ‘assemblages’ of Deleuze and Guattari; from the labyrinth of Joyce’sFinnegans Waketo Derrida’s inferno in the house of Freud; from the fantastical imaginings of Borges to the very rule of Foucauldian discourse; the ar...

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Published inAfter Poststructuralism p. 284
Main Author MICHAEL J. O’DRISCOLL
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Toronto Press 30.07.2002
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Archaeological paradigms
Archaeology
Archival science
Archives
Archives administration
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Body temperature changes
Cognitive psychology
Communications
Cultural anthropology
Cultural institutions
Discourse
Fever
Health sciences
Information science
Libraries
Library science
Literary studies
Literature
Medical conditions
Memory
Modernist art
Poetics
Psychology
Rhetoric
Social sciences
Symptoms
Writing
Written communication
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Summary:From the tangled underroot of ideas that is Ezra Pound’s ‘paideuma’ to the textual ‘assemblages’ of Deleuze and Guattari; from the labyrinth of Joyce’sFinnegans Waketo Derrida’s inferno in the house of Freud; from the fantastical imaginings of Borges to the very rule of Foucauldian discourse; the archive may well be the central figure of twentieth-century literary and theoretical engagements with questions of knowledge.¹ As, in Borges’ words, a technology ‘whose hazardous volumes run the constant risk of being changed into others and in which everything is affirmed, denied, and confused as by a divinity in delirium’ (86), the
ISBN:9780802047915
0802047912
DOI:10.3138/9781442670686.16