
Michel Foucault's "The Archaeology of Knowledge" (First Half)
Theory & Philosophy
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Archaeology - A Series of Concentric Circles
Archaeology describes discourses as practices specified in the element of the archive. This term does not imply the search for a beginning, or perhaps what we can liken to like the logos, the spirit,. reason, these types of institutional formations. So another thing that kind of struck me anew when working on this is that he describes his method or archaeology as a series of concentric circles. I tried to run with that a little bit and see if we take that on faith where does that take us? And does it help us explain who goes work in the archaeology?
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