{"id":395583,"date":"2017-10-30T07:23:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=763e216631373fda73ea5d4d812bfb36"},"modified":"2017-10-30T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T11:23:57","slug":"how-the-sibling-shaped-modern-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=395583","title":{"rendered":"How the sibling shaped modern views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Stefani Engelstein&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity,&#8221; the author argues that a genealogical way of thinking about global relations emerged in the nineteenth century.  This way of thinking led to several notable successes, such as evolutionary theory and the outlines of a number of language families, but it simultaneously served as the foundation for massive failures that have cast long shadows \u2013 such as race theory. Engelstein focuses on the sibling link within genealogies as a way to understand their inherent instability and provide a clue to alternative, more nuanced ways of thinking about classifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Stefani Engelstein&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity,&#8221; the author argues that a genealogical way of thinking about global relations emerged in the nineteenth century.  This way of thinking led to several notable successes, such as evolutionary theory and the outlines of a number of language families, but it simultaneously served as the foundation for massive failures that have cast long shadows &ndash; such as race theory. Engelstein focuses on the sibling link within genealogies as a way to understand their inherent instability and provide a clue to alternative, more nuanced ways of thinking about classifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395584,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395583\/revisions\/395584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}