A Body Worth Defending: Immunity,Biopolitics,and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body,by Ed Cohen. Durham and London: Duke University Press,2009

1. “My aim is to uncover the principles and consequences of autochthonous transformation that is taking place in the field of historical knowledge” (Foucault 1972, 15). Autocthonous knowledge pops up, and is as independent of Geist as it is of capitalism.

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. Translated by A. M. Sheridan. New York: Pantheon, 1972.

Scott, Joan. Gender and the Politics of History. Revised edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.