In the following passages, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
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To articulate subjectivity outside the parameters of modern rationality is to engage in a form of epistemic insurgency—an attempt to (36)_____the archive of thought that has long dictated who can speak, know, and be known. Within this intellectual economy, knowledge functions less as illumination and more as a technique of capture, binding bodies to grids of intelligibility. The university, as both a disciplinary and affective apparatus, perpetuates this capture by codifying dissent into legible critique, thereby neutralizing its subversive potential. The scholar’s task, therefore, is not to seek entry into this canon but to perform an (37) _____of its internal architecture—to expose how its grammar of universality is built upon exclusion and erasure. What is often called “truth” is merely the sediment of power’s reiterations, a rhetorical stability achieved through repetition and consent. Liberation, then, cannot arise from accumulation of knowledge but from its strategic (38)____, a refusal to reproduce epistemic norms that domesticate difference. This gesture demands a reorientation of thought itself—toward opacity, silence, and the undecidable. Only then can we begin to imagine a politics of knowing that does not rely on mastery but on (39)_____—an ethics that acknowledges the unknowable as constitutive of the human. In this sense, the future of theory lies not in progress but in (40)____—a recursive undoing of thought’s imperial trajectory.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 37.
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Correct option: A — excavation
excavation ‘Excavation’ means the act of uncovering or bringing to light something hidden or buried. The given passage states that the scholar’s task is to expose how the grammar of universality is built upon exclusion and erasure, which involves uncovering the underlying structure of thought. Hence, ‘excavation’ is the most appropriate answer.
