The imperial archive operated as an apparatus controlling territory through information circulation

Evidence

Foucault’s insistence that the archive forms a system of enunciabilities rather than all the texts that a culture preserves or those institutions that store them … For Richards, Hilton’s Lost Horizon and Kipling’s Kim are entries in a Victorian archive that was the “prototype for a global system of domination through circulation, an apparatus for controlling territory by producing, distributing and consuming information about it.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 308

Categorization

• XREF: Foucault’s system-of-enunciabilities definition of archive and Richards’ imperial-archive thesis bear directly on the reader’s archival epistemic-anxiety material.