This essay examines Michel Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution of 1979 for clues about both the biopolitical limits of the archaeological method deployed in The Order of Things (Les mots et les choses).Following Foucault's Kantianism, which holds that an episteme cannot reflect its own proper conditions of possibility, we examine the hypothesis that culturalism is in fact one of the foundational conditions necessary for the archaeological method and at the same time its principle biopolitical mode of operation. Once this possibility can be admitted, it becomes imperative to explore the notion that discontinuities between cultures are not distinct to one particular culture but may in fact be managed through a common technique or practice. What if, in other words, there is a biopolitical technology at work behind the archaeological method?