Smash Cut - Unobtrusive Research Methods

In this book, Foucault describes the analytical method he used in his earlier works such as 'Madness and Civilization', 'The Birth of the Clinic', and 'The Order of Things'. The archaeology of knowledge is an approach to historical analysis that examines the history of discourse, the set of 'things said' in all their interrelations and transformations. It seeks to describe the processes of discourse without assuming historical unity or continuity, instead highlighting disruptions, thresholds, differences, and complex varieties. Foucault's method involves analyzing the organized dispersion of statements and discursive formations to understand the conditions that make certain expressions discursively meaningful[1][2][5].