Archivo y tiempo

"According to a famous statement by Foucault, the archive is ' the law that determines what can be said'. To bring this statement closer to the level of empirical institutions, it can be rephrased in the following way: The archive is the basis of what can be said in the future about the present when it will have become the past".

Aleida Assmann, 'Canon and archive', in Erll and Nünning, A companion to cultural memory studies, De Gruyter, Berlín, NY, 2010, p.102.