Foucault

3 uses of history a) parodic – directed against reality. Opposes the theme of history as reminiscence or recognition b) dissociative – directed against identity, and opposes history given as continuity or representative of a tradition c) sacrificial – directed against truth. Opposes history as knowledge

//“Genealogy… rejects the metahistorical deployment of ideal significations and indefinite teleologies. It opposes itself to the search for ‘origins’”// (140). H’way certainly comes to mind here with her figure of emergent mutants capable of resisting simple origin stories. Instead, “numberless beginnings” (145). Deleuze might focus on the middle as opposed to a beginning or end. “Interpretation” as the violent seizing of rules that have no essential meaning (52).

Genealogy records a history of //meaning//. This recalls Joan Scott’s attention to how not just the experience of women has changed over past centuries, but how the //concept// of “woman” has changed.

“//knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting//” (154).

154-155: [|chaos]/randomness > teleology