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Unsaid

Unsaid

Although the analysis of statements does not take account of anything beyond the level of discursive relations, and though it dismisses any notion of a secret, hidden, or unspoken meaning inherent in articulated language, it has at some point to confront the fact that only some things are said out of a much larger set of things that could be said. Thus, part of the conditions of the emergence of statements involves ‘exclusions, limits, or gaps’ that define what cannot be said (or cannot be said explicitly). It is crucial, however, to recognize that archeology does not recognize the unsaid as a set of ‘meanings concealed in what is formulated.’ Archeology simply describes the conditions of the emergence of statements, including those conditions that exclude other possible articulations. In this sense, the factors that demarcate the said from the unsaid are simply the factors that make the said possible.