Recovering subjugated knowledges risks rebuilding a unitary discourse

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 28; Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength — 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

• Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself (similarity 0.95)
• Archaeology analyzes local discourses while genealogy deploys the knowledges those analyses release (similarity 0.88)
• Genealogy requires the removal of totalizing discourse’s tyranny (similarity 0.87)
• Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength (similarity 0.85)
• Genealogy refuses to take sovereignty, the state, and civil society as givens (similarity 0.80)
• Genealogies recover subjugated knowledges and contest juridical and economic models of power. (similarity 0.79)
• Genealogy works backward from present certainties to their contingencies (similarity 0.79)
• Analyzing the present requires tracing its anterior genealogical conditions of existence (similarity 0.79)
• If power is omnipresent, genealogy’s critical standpoint becomes problematically internal to power (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 28