Archeology of archeology: reading under our skin

Abstract

Foucauldian archaeology has gone through different stages since its rise in the 1960s and now seems to be a kind of museum piece that is somewhat uncomfortable for contemporary thought: it is the object of a certain veneration, but at the same time it is difficult to attribute to it any autonomy that does not take into account genealogy or some other theoretical element that accompanies it. Foucault himself partially contributed to this. However, from an approach related to reading as a concept and at the same time recovering a certain material dimension of archaeology in relation to the work on the ground, new light could be shed on this inescapable piece of Western thought and on the reflection linked to the archive in general.

Keywords

• arqueología, discontinuidad, archivo