Making Culture, Changing Society

Description

Cover Title Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Note on the text Introduction Part 1: Culture: veridical, material and Compositional Perspectives 1 After Culture? Historicising culture Culture in question (i): after representation Culture in question (ii): after critique Culture in question (iii): after the human/post-human divide 2 Making culture, organising freedom, changing society The culture complex Publics, milieus, networks and infrastructures Assembling culture, working on the social The ontological politics of culture 3 Civic laboratories: museums, cultural objecthood and the governance of the social Museums as laboratories Cultural objecthood and self /other governance Re-socialising objects, diversifying the social Limiting culture Part 2: Anthropological assemblages Inter-text 1 4 Making and mobilising worlds: assembling and governing the Other From field to museum and back again Racial essentialism and governing strategies Racial, individual and governmental times 5 Collecting, instructing, governing: fields, publics, milieus Colonial humanism and Greater France: colonial and regional governmentalities Museum–field–public Governmental objects Part 3: Governing through freedom: aesthetics and liberal governance Inter-text 2 6 The uses of uselessness: aesthetics, freedom, government From police to liberal government The distribution of judgement and the limits of liberal political community Autonomising the aesthetic, multiplying the uses of uselessness 7 Guided freedom: aesthetics, tutelage and the interpretation of art Art and the division of occupations Secular oracles Producing and distributing freedom Part 4: Habit and the architecture of the person Inter-text 3 8 Habit, instinct, survivals: repetition, history, biopower Habit, custom and the will: a virtuous cycle From habit to instinct: somatic accumulation, evolution, history Exiting history: somatic and cultural ‘flat-lining’ and the logic of biopower 9 Habitus/habit: freedom/history Archaic habitus Aesthetic and political disqualification Accomplishing freedom Afterword Notes References Index