ELIVELTON LEONEL DA SILVA

This research aims to analyze the relationship between a historical investigation and the notion of "literary space" in Foucault's archaeology, present in the book "The Order of Things". To this end, we will fly over aspects of different historical models and conceptions of language and discursivity, enabling us to recognize in Foucault an attempt to base his archaeology on concepts such as discontinuity, simultaneity and the spatiality of language, which appears in authors such as Bataille, Blanchot etc. Thus, by highlighting the discursive nature of the archaeology of the human sciences, we can situate laughter as an alternative analysis to the totalizing air that the notion of "form of knowledge" seems to have in his work.