ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on archival studies and the traditional underpinnings that continue to permeate archival thought today. This chapter traces the shifting archival paradigm from modern to postmodern archival thought and considers their distinct and overlapping material consequences. Through the introduction of the body as a framework for better understanding the power of the archives to shape bodies of knowledge, this chapter argues for a posthuman heuristic for seeing and working with human and nonhuman interactions as relational complexities that universalized standards can never attend to adequately or accurately.
