History of the Present

Michel Foucault (1980) talked about an ontology of the present or a history of the present to understand the subjects we have become. Thomas Popkewitz talks about historicizing instead of historicism. Historicization proposes a decentring of the subject as a way “to engage the complex intersections that produce principles that govern what is thought, talked about, seen, and felt in the making of the subject” (Popkewitz, 2013, p. 15). This is how we conceive of the [[creative child]] as an [[event]] that must be historicized. We do not look at history as a linear development through the arrow of time. This is why a history of the present is interested in finding the genealogies that make the present possible. It implies a particular relation to the [[archive]].