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Colonial archives constituted a technology that enabled the collection, storage, ordering, retrieval and exchange of knowledge as an instrument of colonial governance. It is not surprising that when such archives were inherited by independent nation-states they were not given the authority previously granted them and have often been neglected. What, then, is the future of colonial archives in postcolonial nations? How should we rethink these archives in relation to decolonial futures? This essay introduces a collection of articles that explore the repertoires of action latent in archives and how colonial archives are being reconfigured to imagine decolonial futures.
Nullius in verba,'' ''On the word of no man.'' In the 1660s, with these words taken from Horace, the scientific age was inaugurated. Adopted by the newly established Royal Society, this motto declared a break from Aristotelian epistemologies based on doctrine, rhetoric, and the authority of accepted truths which had dominated the scholastic world of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. What the new academicians proposed was a commitment to empirical evidence as the basis for knowledge, a commitment to establishing truths about the world through the staging of experiments. The experiment, meaning ''from trying,'' thus became synonymous with the scientific method. Indeed, the popular image of the scientist remains that of a white-coated figure, surrounded by laboratory apparatus, peering into a test tube.Historians of science have discussed the concept of the experiment at length. Like other disciplines, the natural sciences have had their reflexive turn and authors including Hacking (1983), Latour (1999), and Shapin and Schaffer (1985 have turned their critical attention to the experimental processes through which scientific knowledge is produced. While they have pointed out the heterogeneity of types of experimentation historically (especially Hacking 1975; see Schaffer 2005), central to many character-Macdonald / Exhibition Experiments 1405130768_4_000
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