Nothing is total: Michel Foucault's turn and the figure of the archivist as an disobedient artist

Abstract

This essay locates the thought of Michel Foucault as a pioneer of the philosophical turn around the archive paradigm: by observing the documentary genesis, understood beyond historical traditions, and from the Foucauldian imprint, it will be possible to show how archival practices embody a sensitivity specific to the archivist-artist. The plot transitions of this work do not seek to exhaust the theme, on the contrary, the objective is to reveal a living line of work still in process and launched by creative subjectivities.