Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality

Natasha.Pomakoy

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Offering new and unique approaches bridging the gap between cultural analysis and governmentality studies in the United States, this book opens up new lines of inquiry into cultural practices and offers fresh perspectives on Foucault's writings and their implications for cultural studies. It provides critical frameworks to analyze cultural practices and strategies of governing as ways of understanding the present. It also broadens the theater of intellectual debates over "culture and governing" studies from their current locales in Australia and Great Britain to the United States.

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INTRODUCTION

1. Governing the Present
Jack Z. Bratich, Jeremy Packer, and Cameron McCarthy

2. Mapping the Intersections of Foucault and Cultural Studies: An Interview with Lawrence Grossberg and Toby Miller, October, 2000
Jeremy Packer

3. Culture and Governmentality
Tony Bennett

PART I. KNOWLEDGE, THEORY, EXPERTISE

4. Making Politics Reasonable: Conspiracism, Subjectification, and Governing through Styles of Thought
Jack Z. Bratich

5. Bureaumentality
Jonathan Sterne

6. Disciplining Mobility: Governing and Safety
Jeremy Packer

PART II. POLICY, POWER, AND GOVERNING PRACTICES

7. Unaided Virtues: The (Neo)Liberalization of the Domestic Sphere and the New Architecture of Community
James Hay

8. From Nation to Community: Museums and the Reconfiguration of Mexican Society under Neoliberalism
Mary K. Coffey

9. Designing Fear: How Environmental Security Protects Property at the Expense of People
Carrie A. Rentschler

10. Creating a New Panopticon: Columbine, Cultural Studies, and the Uses of Foucault
Greg Dimitriadis and Cameron McCarthy

PART III. TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF

11. Doing Good by Running Well: Breast Cancer, the Race for the Cure, and New Technologies of Ethical Citizenship
Samantha J. King

12. God Games and Governmentality: Civilization II and Hypermediated Knowledge
Shawn Miklaucic

13. Subjectivity as Identity: Gender Through the Lens of Foucault
Lisa King

Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie politique
• Communication studies
• Sociology

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791487112
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality

Edited by Jack Z. Bratich Jeremy Packer Cameron McCarthy

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Foucault, cultural studies, and governmentality / edited by Jack Z. Bratich, Jeremy Packer, Cameron McCarthy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5663-3 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5664-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Power (Social sciences) 2. State, The. 3. Culture—Study and teaching. 4. Foucault, Michel. I. Bratich, Jack Z., 1969– II. Packer, Jeremy, 1970– III. McCarthy, Cameron.

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Contents

I NTRODUCTION Governing the Present Jack Z. Bratich, Jeremy Packer, and Cameron McCarthy Mapping the Intersections of Foucault and Cultural Studies: An Interview with Lawrence Grossberg and Toby Miller, October, 2000 Jeremy Packer Culture and Governmentality Tony Bennett

P ART K I NOWLEDGE , T HEORY , E XPERTISE Making Politics Reasonable: Conspiracism, Subjectification, and Governing through Styles of Thought Jack Z. Bratich Bureaumentality Jonathan Sterne Disciplining Mobility: Governing and Safety Jeremy Packer

P ART  II P OLICY , P OWER , AND  G OVERNING  P RACTICES Unaided Virtues: The (Neo)Liberalization of the Domestic Sphere and the New Architecture of Community James Hay

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From Nation to Community: Museums and the Reconfiguration of Mexican Society under Neoliberalism Mary K. Coffey Designing Fear: How Environmental Security Protects Property at the Expense of People Carrie A. Rentschler Creating a New Panopticon: Columbine, Cultural Studies, and the Uses of Foucault Greg Dimitriadis and Cameron McCarthy

P ART  III T ECHNOLOGIESOFTHE  S ELF 11. Doing Good by Running Well: Breast Cancer, the Race for the Cure, and New Technologies of Ethical Citizenship Samantha J. King 12. God Games and Governmentality:Civilization II and Hypermediated Knowledge Shawn Miklaucic 13. Subjectivity as Identity: Gender Through the Lens of Foucault Lisa King Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality emerged out of intense con- versations among the members of the student/faculty Cultural Studies and Foucault Reading Group that has been meeting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since the autumn of 1997. The group consists of the following members: Steve Bailey, Ted Bailey, Jack Bratich, Heidi Brush, Andy Cantrell, Kevin Carollo, Mary Coffey, Greg Dimitriadis, Michael Elavsky, Richard Freeman, Kelly Gates, James Hay, Lisa King, Sammi King, Marie Leger, Cameron McCarthy, Tim McDonough, Shawn Miklaucic, Mark Nimkoff, Jeremy Packer, Carrie Rentschler, Craig Robertson, Paula Saukko, Rob Sloane, Beth Starr, and Jonathan Sterne. Participants come from a wide range of disciplines: anthropology, art history, communications, educational policy studies, English, kinesiology, law, medicine, philosophy, and speech com- munication. Some of these members have moved on to other institutions to begin their tenures as professional academics but still maintain active corre- spondence with and participation in the group. So, the group is both cross- disciplinary and cross-institutional. As a collective, our interdisciplinary group has engaged in critical and supportive debate both around Foucault’s writings and the individual research projects of each member. This collective focused on the later works of Fou- cault, paying particular attention to the last two volumes of theHistory of Sexualityhis writings and lectures on governmentality. The group took and up work in and out of cultural studies that dealt with this later thought, including Toby Miller, Nikolas Rose, Tony Bennett, Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne, Judith Butler, and Wendy Brown. Thus, this collection benefits from the multiplicity of perspectives inherent in an interdisciplinary group, yet coheres through its status as a collaborative project on the thought of Michel Foucault and its powerful implications for cultural studies.

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As editors, we would like to express our sincerest appreciation to group members for their intense commitment toFoucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality. We would like to express our profound appreciation to Dale Cotton, Ron Helfrich, Jane Bunker and Michael Haggett at SUNY Press. A special thank you is also due to our editor Laura Marks without whose scrupulous appraisals our book would not have been completed in its present form. Thanks also to Milla Rosenberg for her helpful comments on the introduction. Larry Grossberg, Toby Miller, and Tony Bennett have been keen supporters of this book project all along. We thank them for their encouragement, participation, and genuine assistance in helping us to both conceptualize this volume and to bring it to fruition. We also express our gratitude to Clifford G. Christians and Paula Treichler, who, as directors of the Institute of Communications Research, provided generous financial sup- port for this project. Finally, our research assistants, Kelly Gates, Michael Giardina, Susan Harewood, Marie Leger, Jin Park, and Craig Robertson provided us with invaluable and keen editorial support throughout the entire period of preparation of our manuscript. Thank you especially to Craig for his ceaseless efforts to keep us abreast of recent publications on governmentality, as well as his persistence in keeping the contributors on track for final dead- lines. We would like to express our profound gratitude to all of them for their inexhaustible involvement in the production ofFoucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality.

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