Genealogy of Genealogy

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Religion and chair of science and technology studies at Williams College. He is the author of Metamodernism: The Future of Theory and The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

• A Note on Texts and TranslationsIntroduction: In the Coils of the OuroborosPart 1: A History of the Genealogical Present1: The Dominion of Genealogy History in Black LeatherFoucault AscendantThe First Charge: The Hegemony of Genealogy 2: Genealogical Regimes Genealogy’s BodiesGenealogy’s Power EffectsGenetic GenealogyThe Second Charge: Genealogy as PowerPart 2: The Chimera of Origins3: Nietzsche as Progenitor Against the GenealogistsThe Emergence of a Genealogical PolemicThe Untimely HistorianDismantling “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” 4: Genealogy’s Shadows: Bataille, Wahl, Deleuze Nietzsche DismemberedMonstrous NietzscheRhizomesThe Third Charge: The Phantom of OriginsPart 3: Genealogy as Mask5: Foucault: Confessions of a Structuralist The Black Monk and the Archaeology of Foucault’s StructuralismThe Bonfire of StructuralismThe Road to Genealogy 6: Foucault in the Coils of Genealogy Nietzschean Genealogy as Pedigree and PowerFoucault’s Nietzsche Course and Notes“Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” RevisitedGenealogy as Joyful ScienceThe Fourth Charge: The Mask of MethodConclusion: Beyond the Autodestruction of Genealogy Against Automatic CriticismToward a Metamodern Historiography AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“An evocative work of immanent critique, The Genealogy of Genealogy exposes the epistemic dangers, institutional hierarchies, racist filiation with eugenics, and moral hypocrisies embedded in ‘genealogy’ as critical method. Storm brilliantly foments ‘genealogical anxiety’ in this Foucauldian reader through a powerful call to meet critique with world-building, to recognize contingencies alongside continuities, and to displace genealogy’s hegemony with the urgent ethical and political needs of our present. Storm’s labyrinth is Foucauldian in ethos, fascinating in critical force, and disruptive of moralizing critique.”