Documentation regimes and their experts reproduce each other in closed circuits

Evidence

Regimes of official documentation in his account are inert remnants, iconic roadmaps to regimes of domination that warp the integrity of the best of men. Such closed-circuited regimes of impoverished testimony produce their experts who in turn produce them. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 120

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the archive-as-institution argument in Derrida’s Archive Fever and Foucault’s discourse production, but applied specifically to colonial testimony economies.