Michel and Mathurin

Finding Foucault in the Archives

Auteurs-es

  • Steven Maynard

Résumé

Cet article nous invite à suivre Foucault dans les archives. Foucault a passé une bonne partie de sa vie professionnelle en tant que lecteur et chercheur dans les bibliothèques et les archives; toutefois, dans la littérature archivistique, il apparaît le plus souvent comme le créateur du concept ésotérique de “l’archive”. En contrepartie, cet article explore le travail de Foucault dans les archives, l’emploi qu’il fait des archives dans son œuvre, et la signification qu’il attribue à la recherche dans les archives. Finalement, je propose qu’il soit impossible de comprendre l’archive abstraite en tant que concept sans l’ancrer d’abord dans les dimensions expérientielle, épistémologique, méthodologique et politique de la rencontre avec Foucault dans les archives.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Steven Maynard

Steven Maynard is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of History at Queen’s University, where he teaches the history of sexuality. His article “Queer Parrhesiast,” in “Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive,” a special issue of PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas 33, no. 65 (2022), is a study of the personal archives of gay-left thinker Alexander Wilson, who interviewed Foucault during his stay in Toronto in the spring of 1982. The article, which reproduces the manuscript of the interview with Foucault found in Wilson’s papers, is part of a book Steven is writing on Foucault’s visits to Canada/Québec and his impact on local activist-intellectuals. A previous article, “Police/Archives,” in Archivaria, no. 68 (Fall 2009), won the Association of Canadian Archivists’ W. Kaye Lamb Prize for the article that most advances archival thinking in Canada.

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2025-12-17

Comment citer

Maynard, Steven. 2025. « Michel and Mathurin: Finding Foucault in the Archives ». Archivaria 100 (décembre):44-73. https://www.archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/14061.

Numéro

Archivaria 100: Special Issue - Legacies of Critical Theory in Archives (Fall/Winter 2025)

Rubrique

Glancing Backwards

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