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These and other essays formulate or adopt such terms as the "social archive," the "raw archive," the "imperial archive," the "postcolonial archive," "the popular archive," "the ethnographic archive," "the geographical archive," "the liberal archive," "archival reason," "archival consciousness," "archive cancer," and "the poetics of the archive." 12 This terminology reflects the development of theories about the nature of the disci- plines and about what constitutes their legitimate objects of study.
Richards describes the creation of what he calls "the fantasy of the imperial archive" in which the state superintends all the knowledge of its empire and thus imagines that it controls all the territory that it surveys and documents.38 He traces this myth of an imperial archive capable of absorbing and organizing every piece of relevant data to the positivism of Mill and Comte and the philosophical traditions of Leibnitz, Kant, and von Humboldt.
The "fantasy of an imperial archive in which the control of Empire hinges on a British monopoly over knowledge" was an adaptation of the belief in "a universal and essential form of knowledge."39 Current notions about the influence wielded by those who control the flow of information echo the imperial belief that con- trol of the archive is a form of political power.
Richards explores the fantasy of the imperial archive in the writings of several of these authors as a sampling of the genre he calls imperial fiction.
Just as Thomas Richards uses the concept of the imperial archive as a key to under- standing nineteenth-century England, Suzanne Keen investigates the proliferation in the past few decades of what she calls romances of the archive.40 Whereas the imperial
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