ABSTRACT
The ways in which genealogy is 'done' in academic discourse are closely related to patterns of making sense that resemble the way in which a narrative story makes common sense. The term genealogy is often used in an everyday-like manner without much close engagement with Foucault and with little attention paid to the complexity that is addressed with this term in Foucault's or Nietzsche's work. Foucault's reading of Nietzsche's juxtaposition of history with genealogy, or traditional history with 'wirkliche Historie', questions the notion of any such origin. In addition to the destabilization of the scientific claim to finding the facts, free of fiction, Haraway takes the sole authority of writing such scientific stories away from the human researchers and their technologies. Stories are means to ways of living. Stories are technologies for primate embodiment. Shaping stories then emerges as a practice involved with the collaborative weaving of realities, as a 'worlding practice'.
