Filing systems and disciplined writing are themselves methods of domination
Evidence
As some of the best of this work now recognizes, ļ¬ling systems and disciplined writing produce assemblages of control and speciļ¬c methods of domination. More than ever, new studies of archival production tackle the politics of colonial knowledge and the āarrested historiesāāthose histories suspended from received historiographyāthat are its effects. ā Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemicā¦, 202
Categorization
- DEFINE: āArrested historiesā is defined here as histories suspended from received historiography.
- XREF: Connects to the readerās stated purpose of understanding the mechanics of colonial epistemic domination; also resonates with scholarship on bureaucratic knowledge production.