Included here for its technical sense, found in the work of Foucault, of an historical project which aims to reveal, via careful and particularistic interpretation, the discontinuities, difference and heterogeneity in what was considered regular, stable and continuous (for example human sexuality or rationality).
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sociotechnical genealogy
References
Foucault, M., 1984: Nietzsche, genealogy, history, in P. Rabinow (ed.),
The Foucault reader, New York, 76-100.