So we are alw ays 'made up' not of a solidity and wholeness but of the fragmentary, the momentary, the fragile, open to dispersion ourselves. Finally, descent attaches itself to the body. Genealogy, as an analysis of descent, is thus situated within the articulation of the body and history. Its task is to expose a body totally imprinted by history and the process of history s destruction of the body. Emergence is not a final term but simply the current episode in a series of subjugations, to chance, the difficulties of eating, shelter, etc, wars, disease, natural disasters and so forth.
Genealogy seeks to reestablish the systems of subjugation, the h azardous play of dominations.
Emergence is through the struggle of forces. In that space, is the endless play of dominations. But if interpretation is the violent or surreptitious appropriation of a system of rules, which in itself has no essential meaning, in order to impose a direction, to bend it to a new will, to force its participation in a different game, and to subject it to secondary rules, then the development of humanity is a series of interpretations. Everything that was thought immortal must be placed within history. An event, consequently, is not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle but the reversal of a relationship of forces, the usurpation of power, the appropriation of a vocabulary turned against those who had once used it, a feeble domination that poisons itself as it grows lax, the entry of a masked 'other'.