Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself

Evidence

It is a way of playing local, discontinuous, disqualified, or nonlegitimized knowledges off against the unitary theoretical instance that claims to be able to filter them, organize them into a hierarchy, organize them in the name of a true body of knowledge, in the name of the rights of a science that is in the hands of the few. Genealogies are therefore not positivistic returns to a form of science that is more attentive or more accurate. Genealogies are, quite specifically, antisciences. It is not that they demand the lyrical right to be ignorant, and not that they reject knowledge, or invoke or celebrate some immediate experience that has yet to be captured by knowledge. That is not what they are about. They are about the insurrection of knowledges. Not so much against the contents, methods, or concepts of a science; this is above all, primarily, an insurrection against the centralizing power-effects that are bound up with the institutionalization and workings of any scientific discourse organized in a society such as ours. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 28

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines genealogy precisely against positivism and empiricism as ‘the insurrection of knowledges’ against the power-effects of scientific institutionalization.
• XREF: This is the scaffolding distinction that later Islamophobia readings inherit: how a discourse’s claim to scientific status disqualifies other knowledges. — connects to: Recovering subjugated knowledges risks rebuilding a unitary discourse; Genealogy requires the removal of totalizing discourse’s tyranny — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 27; Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 29 (+3 more)

Related

• Recovering subjugated knowledges risks rebuilding a unitary discourse (similarity 0.95)
• 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 0.88)
• Genealogy works backward from present certainties to their contingencies (similarity 0.81)
• Genealogy refuses to take sovereignty, the state, and civil society as givens (similarity 0.81)
• Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength (similarity 0.80)
• Analyzing the present requires tracing its anterior genealogical conditions of existence (similarity 0.80)
• If power is omnipresent, genealogy’s critical standpoint becomes problematically internal to power (similarity 0.79)
• A discourse is an archive that genealogy must excavate. (similarity 0.79)
• Genealogies recover subjugated knowledges and contest juridical and economic models of power. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release #expands (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 29