conjurer (2022-12-14) (2022-12-24)

Relying on the ambivalence of the French term conjurer, which means both to dispel and to evoke, Agamben suggests that a philosophical archaeology must conjure up, or evoke, an absent origin, in order to dispel it.

It's orientation towards the past is thus "a matter of conjuring up its phantasm, through meticulous genealogical inquiry, in order to work on it, deconstruct it, and detail it to the point where it gradually erodes, losing its originary status" (ST, 102)

(The Agamben Dictionary, ed. Alex Murray, Jessica White, EUP, 2011, pp. 4-5)

意思是說，這是我們和語言，文字，以至話語系統，的關係的最好的狀態，就是熟悉它的同時，顛覆它，

Archeology, Agamben notes, is an investigation into this "historical a priori", which underlies our attempts to provide categorizations and taxonomies capable of bringing order to chaos. (ibid, p. 6)

(Therefore, Agamben was very Foucaultian.)