Archaeology (n.) is a form of analysis that is concerned not with universal structures but with the instances of discourse that articulate what we think, say, and do as so many historical events.
Archaeology (n.) is a method for marking out principles of ordering, exclusion, and rarity.
Archaeology (n.) is a method of focusing 'purely on what was actually said or written and how it fits into the discursive formation.
Archaeology (n.) is a method of locating relatively autonomous system of serious speech acts.
Archaeology (n.) is a method quite different from formalization and from interpretation.
Archaeology (n.) is a method that addresses itself to the general space of knowledge and its configurations, and to the mode of being of the things that appear in it.
Archaeology (n.) is a method which shows the coherence that existed between various domains such as a theory of representation and language, natural orders, as well as wealth and value.
Archaeology (n.) is a methodological approach which, say, in the field of criminality, might focus on the discourses and practices of the criminal courts to reveal how and in what ways legal equality is engendered. A genealogical approach would then consider how these contemporary discourses came into being, and the alternatives that were suppressed along the way.
Archaeology (n.) is about examining the discursive traces and orders left by the past in order to write a 'history of the present'.
Archaeology (n.) is concerned with systems of simultaneity as well as the series of mutations that circumscribe the threshold of a new positivity.
Archaeology (n.) is not the history of a particular language, but the unearthing of particular silences.
Archaeology (n.) is possible and useful to do without genealogy, but it is not possible to do genealogy without archaeology, since the internal relations of the discourse must always be explored.
Archaeology (n.) is structuralist. It tries to take an objective neutral position and it avoids causal theories of change.
Archaeology (n.) addresses the similaries and differences that produce forms of knowledge. Genealogy studies where true and false come to be distinguished via mechanisms of power . ..
Archaeology (n.) is tasked with discovering functions that intersect diverse linguistic and material units. It is concerned not with words or phrases but with 'utterances' and not with things but with 'the visible'.
Archaeology (n.) is the analysis of local discursivities, and 'genealogy' is the tactics whereby the subjected knowledges which are released by archaeology are brought into play.
Archaeology (n.) is the analysis of particular institutions and their ways of establishing orders of truth.
Archaeology (n.) is the idea that relations do not go chronologically within disciplines, but across disciplinary lines, zigzagging through changing theories of representations sweeping up science, economics, linguistics in the cultural codes.
Archaeology (n.) is the level of all that made an event or a situation possible.