Archaeology of the " Event 'A Lament for Book Burnings'"

The archaeological event "A Lament for Book Burnings" is a subject with historical roots that can be analyzed using Foucault's archaeological method. Unlike conventional historical methods that aim to investigate and uncover the origins of objects and explain causal relationships between phenomena, archaeology refers to the diversity and discontinuity of events and the hidden dispersions within them. The aim of archaeology as a method is to analyze the underlying and unconscious rules that form discourses, describing an archive of judgments prevalent in a specific era and society. The main question of this research is how book burning is related to concepts such as the elimination and erasure of human knowledge and awareness. The purpose of this study is to analyze the event "A Lament for Book Burnings" using archaeological methods. Data were collected from library sources and examined through a documentary, descriptive-analytical approach. It can be inferred that, like archaeological rules, the director of the event looks at history differently. He does not focus on continuity and connection but emphasizes rupture, discontinuity, and uniqueness. According to archaeology, book burnings are unique historical realities that cannot be repeated. The archaeologist is not concerned with the causes of the emergence of discursive rules but rather follows how discourses appear, persist, and disappear historically at a descriptive level. However, this description is deep rather than superficial. This event also considers the low reading rates and the loss of vocabulary, along with their limitation, as a modern manifestation of book burning.