Sunday, January 25, 2009

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The genealogy and the search for the origin

"1 Genealogy is gray. Conscientiously and patiently sifts documents blur is working on, scratched, written on parchment several times. "

begins with these words, Foucault 1971 text in which he wrote perhaps the most focused on genealogy: Nietzsche, genealogy, history . And for those who are still wondering why they only find their starting point when looking for the source:

"Because it's in such a search in the first place comes to grasp the essence of the thing, its purest possible their introverted identity, unchanging, all external, random manner, after preliminary form. Anyone who seeks such a source, who wants to see 'what was already', the matching 'real thing' of an image with itself; He holds all the vicissitudes, lists, and panels for mere coincidences and will uncover all the masks to reveal the actual identity. But what the genealogist learns when he listens attentively to the story to believe instead of metaphysics? That there is something behind things 'very different': is not that secret, timeless essence, but the secret that they have no essence or that their essence was constructed piece by piece from figures that they were strangers. What is the reason come from? Of course, on entirely 'rational' way, namely by accident. Devotion to the truth and the severity of scientific methods? From the passions The scientists, from their mutual hatred of fanatical, constantly repeated debates, the will to win - weapons over long personal struggles have been forged slowly. And freedom? If it is the fundamental factor that binds man to being and truth? No, it is merely a 'invention of stands' is. On the historical beginning of things one comes not to the still intact identity of its source, but on disagreement and difference "
. [Michel Foucault: Nietzsche, genealogy, history, Dits et Ecrits II]

Foucault: Nietzsche, genealogy , the history

Friday, January 16, 2009

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Michel Foucault: The heterotopias / The utopian body

Michel Foucault: Der utopische Körper / Die Heterotopien. Zwei Radiovorträge. The heterotopias and The utopian body are two short radio talks Michel Foucault, in 1966 were broadcast during the broadcast Culture française . The Suhrkamp Verlag has launched the two texts in 2005 in a small bilingual edition. And for all those who do not bother to read the publisher a CD with the two presentations has settled in the original tone. (Not that it would be hard to read these two short texts). Since the spoken words are not up to the last can be verschriftlicht, is listening a telling change. And it may be hampered by lack of language skills means. The Text room to listen Daniel Defert sending you is fully readable.

Monday, January 12, 2009

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genealogy at Darwin and Foucault

"Darwin not only shows that nature is itself historical, but also developed a method of exploring the story that he" genealogically called "Foucault and follows him. [...] Darwin says of himself that he was a genealogist. He wants to reconstruct the origin, but of course, without "to" emblem books and family trees, he says, to have access. Therefore, he is interested in rudiments the body, to mark the memory of earlier forms of life. In this genealogical reconstruction shows that, for example, can be no "original" lion. There is never an original character, not really, no identity, only distraction. Nature is infinite variety and ever-present dependence. And so going on Michel Foucault: He reconstructed origin story, and resolve it, which is identical and "essentially" appears. Genealogy is a method that power relationships discovered. She pushes it always conflicts, not harmony. But in contrast to the Hegelian view of history that emanates from conflicts, too, has this story not a goal, there is no dialectical synthesis -. And no mind "[Philipp Sarasin in time, 08/01/2009]
The complete
TIME Interview with Philipp Sarasin Darwin from 01/08/2009
Nothing is ever as it

The historian Philipp Sarasin is a book about Darwin and Foucault has written, will be published soon: Darwin and Foucault: Genealogy and History in the Age of Biology
As an appetizer, there's a haphazard cat, because in any case nothing remains as it is, and on Wednesday 14 January 2009 in Munich (LMU, Hgb, HS M218) a lecture on impure beginnings in the lecture series beginning and evolution.

taz article: The cat without a plan 17.12.2008