Foucault’s neoliberalism lectures abandon his own genealogical method

Evidence

Thus, rather than tracking “substitutions, displacements, disguised conquests, and systematic reversals” played out as “a series of subjugations” on the body “as the inscribed surface of events” — exemplified in his genealogies of sexuality, punishment, and madness and formulated methodologically in “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” — Foucault offers a quieter, less complete biographical, historical, geopolitical story of the emergence and dissemination of neoliberal reason. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 90

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• XREF: Directly sets up Brown’s own methodological warrant for her project of extending Foucault into the present — the gap she will fill. — connects to: American Foucault scholarship split over whether he abandoned archaeology for genealogy. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1254