The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.
Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.
The Category is what is 'sighted' in words (the logos), which implies the articulation of an explicit description of the being of a given entity, rather than the covering over of that being of that entity with a name.
Category is the the action of a public accusation, asking someone to account for their actions in front of witnesses.
A Category is necessarily determined by a particular kind of language and that particular language used lets everyone else see the object in terms of its Being.
Classification is that which can take strange forms with no coherent linkage: Such as a list of animals divided by (a) belonging to the emperor (b) embalmed (c) innumerable (d) suckling pigs (e) having just broken the water pitcher.
13 concepts in this pillow book.