Analyzing the present requires tracing its anterior genealogical conditions of existence
Evidence
To put it in a nutshell: Archaeology is the method specific to the analysis of local discursivities, and genealogy is the tactic which, once it has described these local discursivities, brings into play the desubjugated knowledges that have been released from them. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 29 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 29; Cultural analysis must trace routes of transformation rather than roots of continuity; History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203 (+2 more)
Related
- Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release (similarity 0.89)
- Genealogy requires the removal of totalizing discourse’s tyranny (similarity 0.81)
- Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself (similarity 0.80)
- Genealogy works backward from present certainties to their contingencies (similarity 0.79)
- Recovering subjugated knowledges risks rebuilding a unitary discourse (similarity 0.79)
- Discourses persist across centuries by carrying unexamined assumptions into new contexts. (similarity 0.79)
- A discourse is an archive that genealogy must excavate. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release
#expands(0.90) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 29 - Cultural analysis must trace routes of transformation rather than roots of continuity
#qualifies(0.85) - History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it
#expands(0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203 - Histories and causal narratives persist buried inside the language used to tell them
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