...implies a return to and a repetition of the previous discursive formation. Michel Foucault explains this in The Archaeology of Knowledge: To say that one discursive...choices emerges fully armed and fully organized in text that will place that world once and for all; it is to say that a general transformation of relations...

...reject continuity in favor of discontinuity, for it analyzes historical transformations at both levels: To say that one discursive formation is substituted...say that a general transformation of relations has occured, but that it does not necessarily alter all the elements; it is to say that all objects or...

...does not require calling all such beliefs into question, as in this passage on discursive changes: "To say that one discursive formation is substituted...fully armed and fully organized in a text that will replace that world once and for all; it is to say that a general transformation of relations has occurred,...

...instance, in arguing against the apparent relativist implications of archaeology, Foucault writes: To say that one discursive formation is substituted...armed and fully organized in a text that will place the world once and for all ... it is to say that statements are governed by new rules of formation,...