Culture, Government and Spatiality Reassessing the 'Foucault Effect' in Cultural-policy Studies  

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Barnett, Clive

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 2 no. 3 (Des. 1999), page 369–397.
Topik: culture; Foucault; governmentality; media; policy; spatiality
Fulltext: 369IJCS23.pdf (260.82KB)

Isi artikel

This article critically discusses the reconceptualization of culture and governmentality in recent Australian 'cultural–policy studies'. It argues that the further development of this conceptualization requires a more careful consideration of the complex relations between culture, power and the different spatialities of social practices. The assumptions of this literature regarding social-democratic public institutions and the nation-state are critically addressed in the light of contemporary processes of globalization. It is argued that the use made of Foucault in this paradigm privileges a model of disciplinary power which is dependent on a particular spatialization of social subjects and technologies of the self. As a result, an uncritical application of this model to all cultural practices supports a far too coherent image of practices of 'government' in producing sought-after subject-effects. It is suggested that the different articulations of spatio-temporal presence and absence in cultural technologies require a less totalizing understanding of the forms of power exercised through governmental practices.

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