Word: reconstructionalism
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FOUCAULT'S ARCHAEOLOGY has its source in a fundamental change in the nature of history which he sees beginning with Marx. One aspect of this change involves the historian's attitude toward the document, the record and container of discourses. Once, the historian attempted to reconstruct the past through the document by interpretation and amplification. Now, it is the document itself which has become the historian's object...
Last winter the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia turned out between 20,000 and 100,000 pennies that were lucratively flawed. As Mint officials now reconstruct the error, workmen on two shifts had improperly cast a die, and the pennies came out with a shadowy double impression of the words In God We Trust and Liberty, a sort of minute stuttering effect...
...entirely new species. As yet, Jensen's discovery has not been confirmed by other specialists, but he thinks that he can provide even more persuasive evidence. By probing further in the Colorado quarry-"a paleontologist's paradise," he says-Jensen hopes eventually to recover enough bones to reconstruct the entire skeleton of the prehistoric monster...
Open Contract. New York police were certain that they were on the trail of Joey Gallo's killer. As they now reconstruct the assassination, an open contract for Gallo's death had been offered by the Carlo Gambino family at the urging of the Colombos-meaning any Mafia member could execute it. Gambino, the East's strongest Mafia boss, supplied both gangs with guns and encouraged the warfare...
...expedition to eliminate the race of the Eaters, animal pests who obstruct the colonization of an alien planet. When Tom begins to think he perceives an elaborate set of rituals and social relations among the Eaters, is it interplanetary genocide or only the failure of his "psychological reconstruct" to protect him from his own historic past...