Collaboratory in Critical Security Methods
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Method 5: Genealogies, histories, time
Genealogy begins with the recognition of the politics of history. History is composed of struggles, concessions, victories and defeats, and the way history is represented is itself political. Genealogy begins with a challenge to think history not in terms of a series of ‘past presents’ arranged in a linear flow (e.g. Newton), but as a field of complexity, marked by bifurcations and non-linearity, whose contingent structure exerts a real force on the present and potential futures. More
Hodges (2008) Rethinking time’s arrow: Bergson, Deleuze and the anthropology of time
Hodges, Matt (2008), "Rethinking time’s arrow: Bergson, Deleuze and the anthropology of time". In: Anthropological Theory 8(4), pp. 399-429.
Since the early 1970s, time has come to the fore as a constitutive element of social analysis in the guise of what the author terms ‘fluid time’. Anthropologists of multiple theoretical persuasions now take for granted that social life exists in ‘time’, ‘flow’, or ‘flux’, and this temporal ontology is commonly accepted as a universal, if habituallyunquestioned, attribute of human experience. Similarly, it underpins today’s dominant paradigm of ‘processual’ analysis, in its many forms.
Clough (2009) The New Empiricism: Affect and Sociological Method
Clough, Patricia (2009), "The New Empiricism: Affect and Sociological Method". In: European Journal of Social Theory 12 (1), pp. 43-61.
Sociological methodology is rethought in terms of what cultural critics refer to as infraempiricism that allows for a rethinking of bodies, matter and life through new encounters with visceral perception and pre-conscious affect. Thinking infra-empiricism as a new empiricism at this time means rethinking methodology in relationship to the changing configuration of economy, governance disciplinarity and control in the early twenty-first century.
Deleuze (1992) What is a Dispositif?
Deleuze, G. (1992). 'What is a Dispositif?' in T.J. Armstrong (ed), Michel Foucault Philosopher. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf pp. 159-168.
In this article Gilles Deleuze reflects on Foucault's elusive concept of the dispositif and its significance to a philosophy of social apparatuses.
Foucault (1984) Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
Foucault, M. (1994). 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History' in J. Faubian (ed.), Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Vol. 2 London: Penguin Books pp. 369-392.
In this article Foucault discusses the implications of Nietzsche’s genealogical method for the analysis of history. It is a seminal article in Foucault’s early development of the genealogical method which he would develop and employ in his own work.
Dreyfus and Rabinow (1982) Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics- Chapter 5
Dreyfus, Hubert L. and Rabinow, Paul (1982), "Michel Foucault : Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics". Brighton: Harvester, Chapter 5.
These chapters (4 and 5) discuss the differences between Foucault's 'archaeology' and 'genealogy'.
Along with a chapter from Paul Veyne, this forms the basis of our starting discussion in the Method 5 forum.
Dreyfus and Rabinow (1982) Michel Foucault : Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics- Chapter 4
Dreyfus, Hubert L. and Rabinow, Paul (1982), "Michel Foucault : Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics", Brighton: Harvester, Chapter 4.
These chapters (4 and 5) discuss the differences between Foucault's 'archaeology' and 'genealogy'. Along with a chapter from Paul Veyne, this forms the basis of our starting discussion in the Method 5 forum.
Veyne (1997) Foucault Revolutionizes History
Veyne, Paul (1997), "Foucault Revolutionizes History." In: Davidson, Arnold I. (1997), "Foucault and His Interlocutors", Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, pp146-82.
This seminal chapter discusses the importance of Foucault's notion of practice for history and genealogy.
Along with two chapters from Dreyfus and Rabinow, this forms the basis of our starting discussion in the Method 5 forum.