An Archigenesis of Experience

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ID5854472
AuthorsLuciana Parisi (0000-0002-9233-5806)
Year2009
Volume24
Issue59
Pages39-51
Publication date2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08164640802645141
OpenAlexW2063412074
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited1

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Foucault often uses the term ‘genealogy’ to refer to the union of erudite knowledge and local memories, which allow us to establish a historical knowledge of struggles and to make use of this knowledge tactically today. Genealogy focuses on local, discontinuous, illegitimate knowledges against the claims of a unitary body of theory. Foucault says: ‘Let us give the term “genealogy” to the union of erudite knowledge and local memories which allows us to establish a historical knowledge of struggles and to make use of this knowledge tactically today’ (1994, 42). 2. This means that, contrary to the acclaimed feminist politics of anti-essentialism through which generations of feminists have fought against biological determinism, there is a sense in which the evolutionary mutations of sex rather remain central to the abstract engines of change of sexual experience. 3. The biophysical stratification of bacterial and viral colonies into two sexes defines the bio-logical imperative of sexual difference, a nucleic order of sex at war with the pervasive promiscuity of bacterial sexes

Biopower · Determinism · Epistemology · Essentialism · Genealogy · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sexual difference · Sociology · Unitary state · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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