Just a little lubrication. Something to make the differences glow. I can see them now, temporary and fluctuating lines between what things are what they are not. Categories, spaces, spaces filled with things that today, for now, just seem to work. But they vanish as soon as they appear. Things, events, occurrences, thoughts, actions—each appears …
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Genea-logos, the reason of birth
Genealogy avoids the search for depth. Instead, it seeks the surfaces of events, small details, minor shifts, and subtle contours. It shuns the profundity of the great thinkers our tradition has produced and revered; its archenemy is Plato. (Dreyfus & Rabinow, Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 106) To write genealogy is to skim along the …
