The archive produces patterns of time consciousness and makes it possible to order time through its materiality and visibility. Thus, as an institution and as an idea, the archive offers a historical concept of time that is based on specific evidence and perceived authenticity. This hypothesis forms the main focus of my article. Scholars have recently argued that time cannot be perceived when it is in motion; fixing it would therefore enable the handling of time and the construction of specific—that is, historically contextualized and socioculturally and politically relevant—chronotypes. Hence, the archive's status as a complex of repository buildings, archival documents, institutional structures, and scientific practices means that it can be understood as a paradigmatic institution in which projects involving the formation of a concrete chronotype are carried out. This special quality of the archive enables us to discuss its relevance not only at times of crisis and temporal acceleration but also in the experiences of contingency that can be observed in almost all nineteenth-century European societies. With this historical context in mind, my article raises the question of whether the archive can be read as an authority that helped people to regain orientation in time by constructing and communicating a specific pattern of time. To be more precise, it understands the archive as a physical and conceptual space of time—a chronotopos—in which a historically, nationally bound concept of time is rooted. This interpretation of the archive as a time-ordering institution helps to shed light on the assemblage of temporal orders in modernity. I thus propose that the historical conceptualization of time qua archive—and the archive's materiality and organic nature—helped to foster a nationalized understanding of time that was not abstract and arbitrary but rather evident and authentic.

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十九世纪作为计时码表的档案：走向档案时代的历史

档案馆产生了时间意识的模式，并使通过其物质性和可见性来安排时间成为可能。因此，作为一个机构和一个想法，档案馆提供了一个基于特定证据和感知真实性的历史时间概念。这个假设构成了我文章的主要焦点。学者们最近认为，时间在运动时是不能被感知的。因此，修复它将使处理时间和构建特定的——即历史背景化的、社会文化和政治相关的——时间类型成为可能。因此，档案馆的地位是一个由存储库建筑、档案文件、制度结构、科学实践意味着它可以被理解为一个典型的机构，在其中进行涉及具体时间类型形成的项目。档案的这种特殊性质使我们能够不仅在危机和时间加速的时期，而且在几乎所有 19 世纪欧洲社会都可以观察到的偶然性经验中讨论其相关性。考虑到这一历史背景，我的文章提出了一个问题，即档案是否可以被视为一种权威，通过构建和交流特定的时间模式来帮助人们及时重新定位。更准确地说，它将档案理解为一个物理的和概念的时间空间——一个chronotopos——一个历史性的、全国性的时间概念植根于其中。将档案解释为时间排序机构有助于阐明现代性中时间秩序的组合。因此我提议，时间的历史概念化作为档案——以及档案的物质性和有机性——有助于培养对时间的民族化理解，这种理解不是抽象和武断的，而是明显而真实的。