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Part One: Introduction In the Introduction to The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault sets out to unsettle the familiar assumptions that have long governed the study of disciplines such as psychopathology, law, history, or economics. Traditionally, scholars have approached these fields as if they were bound together by a deep and underlying continuity, a coherent rationality, a … Read more

…it is necessary to reserve the use of the word expenditure for the designation of… unproductive forms… …humanity recognizes the right to acquire, to conserve, and to consume rationally, but it excludes in principle nonproductive expenditure. …it appears that sacred things are constituted by an operation of loss.     George Bataille’s 1933 essay The … Read more