Archeofuturism

Faye sought to redefine archaism by arguing that it should be given its true meaning in Greek (derived from the Greek noun: arche) as a ‘foundation’, ‘beginning’ or ‘founding impulse’. Faye explicitly rejected looking back into a romanticised past and viewed this action as a form of regression. Indeed, he argued for the elimination of harmful traditions that threaten the standing of the arche, while keeping those traditions which have proven their worth with the passage of time. As such, the arche engages in a constant process of iteration to ensure that it remains robust and relevant for the time. This also meant that, for Faye, arche did not denote tradition inasmuch as it provided an anchor for civilisation. Even though Faye rejected such idealism, past or present, he also rejected realism and embraced a Nietzschean view of history: There are further parallels between Faye’s concept of arche and the concept of the “central domain”, a term which Carl Schmitt succinctly defines as: Th

Faye sought to redefine archaism by arguing that it should be given its true meaning in Greek (derived from the Greek noun: arche) as a ‘foundation’, ‘beginning’ or ‘founding impulse’. Faye explicitly rejected looking back into a romanticised past and viewed this action as a form of regression. Indeed, he argued for the elimination of harmful traditions that threaten the standing of the arche, while keeping those traditions which have proven their worth with the passage of time. As such, the arche engages in a constant process of iteration to ensure that it remains robust and relevant for the