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James Scott: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James Scott (1998), Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press Much of early modern European statecraft seemed similarly devoted to rationalizing and standardizing what was a social hieroglyph into a legible and administratively more convenient format.” (p.3) Bad state engineering originates in a [...]
Lynn Hunt Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
Lynn Hunt Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution University of California Press, 1984 The re-invention of the notions of political and ideology. The very notion of “the political” expanded and changed shape. The structure of the polity changed under the impact of increasing political participation and popular mobilization; political language, political ritual, and [...]
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey Oxford University Press, 2005 Neoliberalism – a theory of political economic practices proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade. The role of the state [...]
Pierre Bourdieu. The forms of capital.
Pierre Bourdieu 1986. The forms of capital. Capital is accumulated labor. - a vis insita, a force inscribed in objective or subjective structures. - a lex insita, the principle underlying the immanent regularities of the social world. Capital is a force inscribed in the objectivity of things so that everything is not equally possible or impossible. The [...]
Giorgio Agamben „Homo Sacer”
Giorgio Agamben „Homo Sacer” * The two meanings of Life in ancient Greek philosophy zoe – the simple fact of living common to all living beings (animals, men, or gods); bios – indicated the form or way of living proper to an individual or a group. (p.1) * The oikos excluded from the polis. In [...]
Michel Foucault „The History of Sexuality”, Volume 1: An Introduction
* The “Repression Hypothesis”. Features: - Sexuality was confined into the home through the institution of conjugal family and the parents’ bedroom. - Sexuality was conceived in terms of generation and reproduction. - Repression tended to mute and dismiss sexuality. - Repression tended to reintegrate a part of illegitimate sexualities in the circuits of profit [...]
Michel Foucault “Discipline and Punish”
The body of the condemned. We have, then, a public execution and a time-table. They do not punish the same crimes or the same type of delinquent. But they each define a certain penal style. Less than a century separates them. p.7 Among so many changes, I shall consider one: the disappearance of torture as [...]
Jonathan Littell, Les Bienveillantes
Littell, Jonathan. 2006. Les bienveillantes : roman. Paris: Gallimard. après tout, vos opinions vous regardent. Si je me suis résolu à écrire, après toutes ces années, c’est pour mettre les choses au point pour moi-même, pas pour vous. p.11 Malgré mes travers, et ils ont été nombreux, je suis resté de ceux qui pensent que [...]
Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity
Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Liquid Modernity. Polity. Lecture notes. Solids ↔ Liquids Features of fluidity – lightness, cannot easily hold their shape, neither fix space nor bind time, time matters. ‘Bonding’, in turn, is a term that signifies the stability of solids – the resistance they put up against separation of the atoms’. p. 2 Fluidity [...]
Max Weber “Economy and Society” – I
Max Weber, Economy and Society, University of California Press:1978 Chapter III, pp. 212-254: The types of legitimate domination DOMINATION – the probability that certain specific commands (or-all commands) will be obeyed by a given group of persons. It may be based on the most diverse motives of compliance: all the way from simple habituation to [...]
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