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FAHEINA, Evelyn Fernandes Azevedo. Michel Foucault’s archaeological thinking on materiality and referential. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.25, e020001. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v25.e020001.

This text reflects on the way Foucault approaches the notions of materiality and referential in his book The Archeology of Knowledge (FOUCAULT, 2012). More specifically, we seek to identify series of signs, that is, sentences or words written and recorded in the referred work on materiality and referential, in order to know Foucault´s understanding of them. From the theoretical-methodological point of view, it operates in an analyticalargumentative perspective that aims to walk, in the field of language, the set of things said by Michael Foucault about the notions of materiality and referential in light of archaeological approach to discourse proposed by the author himself in the Archeology of Knowledge. It is noteworthy that the search for the identification of series of signs is not intended to explore the system of signification of signifiers, but to understand how they can assume, in discourse, the condition of utterance. Thus, a preliminary procedure supported by the archaeological approach is to go through the documentary diversity (source investigation), in order to identify the series of signs that work, in the investigated discourse, in a particular mode of existence, that is, in the condition of utterances. Guiding by these assumptions, the concepts of materiality and referential were mapped in the book The archeology of knowledge; then the explanation and analysis of the way Foucault understands them. From the study, it is concluded that, discursive analysis in the archaeological perspective, is not subject to the same sign regime, materialized in the relationship between the signifier-meaning, phrase-sense, proposition-referent pairs; Rather, it is linked to a framework constituted by the set of enunciative relations, woven from the conditions of possibility and proper rules of use: relations between utterances, themes, subject positions and distinct materialities. Such relations are subject to a regime of repeatable materiality, which allows one to reiterate one´s identity, despite differences in enunciation, or to distinguish oneself, even under the existence of identical semantic, grammatical or formal expressions.

Palabras clave : Materiality; Referential; Foucault.

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