Archaeology xxiii

Perhaps knowledge succeeds in engendeImg”lrnowledge. ideas in tt:msforming themselves and actively modifYiDgcone~aIiotller (but how?- historianschave uotyet enlightened iIs-oifiliiS pOllit); one thing, in any case, is certain: archaeology,addressing itself to the general space of knowledge, to its configurations, and to the mooe’ofbeing of the things that appear in it. defines sYstemS of simultaneity; as o well as the series of mutations necessary and sufficient to circUmsCribe the threshold of a new positivity.