The Genealogy of Genealogy

“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.” -- Niki Kasumi Clements, Rice University
“Storm has confronted an evasive problem: What are we to do about genealogy once we understand it as a method of inquiry and a social worldview tied to racial hierarchies? His answer is historically and philosophically nuanced but clear about genealogy being used to advance the power of some while imperiling others. It is a book that will leave us talking about the genealogical method again—though this time not as a benign tool but as an orientation that disavows its own history.” -- Terence Keel, University of California, Los Angeles