Notes for CGC March 11, 2025
1. Can archaelogical critique actually give us a history of the present (or some present region of practices)? How can we do critique from our standpoint through archaeology? And, then, what is left for genealogy to do?
2. How does inferentialism present an alternative to social engineering? (Haslanger)
3. Can we identify conditions under which a space of reasons is devoid of power vs a space of reasons where power operates covertly?
4. Disclosing (archaeology) vs depriving (genealogy) formation? (101)
5. Is there any place for institutional/structural critique in this account of critique?
6. Rational control---goal? Is it possible?
Discussion:
Rational control as the aim of the critique, rational material as the content of critique. One does not imply the other. Does T have an overly strong conception of rational control?
Is the broader notion of the conceptual still theoretical in some Brandomian sense after all?
The challenge is the elements of practice that are not reducible to language.
There is no account of pouvoir, but we do need that for elements of practice that are not conceptual.
