Método e salvação

The article investigates the articulation between genealogy and archaeology in Giorgio Agamben, arguing that, although the terms at times appear indistinct, the former carries out a destabilizing task in the lato sensu documents of any canonical narrative, whereas the latter adds a theologico-political activity of “profane salvation” from the ruins of historico-linguistic phenomena. Methodologically, the study undertakes a comparative reconstruction of the Nietzschean and Foucauldian matrices, followed by a conceptual analysis of Agamben’s texts in light of Benjaminian interlocutions and of operators such as paradigm, example rule, protophainomenon, signature, historical a priori, point of insurgency, prehistory, fringe of ultra-history, and vortex. As a result, it is proposed that genealogy and archaeology, when joined, expose the void in which apparatuses and anthropological machines operate onto-temporal cuts in the West and, moreover, orient a practice of profanation and inoperativity of these same mechanisms, letting shine forth the originary an-archy of events and the possibility of inexhaustibly assigning them to other uses.