This article examines the transformation of the archaeological method from Michel Foucault to Giorgio Agamben, analyzing how archaeology constitutes itself as a means of accessing the present through the investigation of the conditions of possibility of knowledge. In Foucault, archaeology describes the archives and systems of discursive dispersion that regulate what can be said and seen in each episteme, distancing itself from both hermeneutics and metahistory. Its shift towards genealogy incorporates the political dimension, understood as the coupling of erudite knowledge and local memories in current struggles. Agamben, for his part, transforms Foucauldian archaeology through the introduction of the paradigm as a methodological tool, recovering Enzo Melandri's analogical thinking. This paradigmatology allows movement from singularity to singularity without resorting to a founding origin, neutralizing dichotomies through an analogical medium that opens nuances suppressed by binary logic. The concept of use [chresis], understood as a middle voice where subject and object enter into indetermination, functions as a hinge between method and political life. Through the paradigm of the slave, Agamben exposes the constitutive inoperativity captured by sovereign dispositifs.