Culture, Politics and Governing [electronic resource] : The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production /
Nickel, P.author.
Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production is a critical, interdisciplinary approach to how the practices that govern the production of knowledge and culture have material consequences for how we experience everyday life.
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Cover; Culture, Politics and Governing; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: The Politics of Ascetics and Governing; 2: Academies of Exhibition and the New Disciplinary Secession; The organization of portrayal: Academy and secession; Secession from the discipline or disciplinary secession?; Curators of narrative space: Editors and exhibition; Conclusion; 3: The Man from Somewhere: Author, Affiliation, and Letterhead; TELOS Essay Prize Competition; From the author function to the affiliation function; Money, manners, and the achievement of letterhead
Collectors and academic status displaysThe anxieties of academic affiliation and status disqualification; Conclusion; 4: The Institutionalization of Author Production and the Performance Imperative as an Ontological Fiction; The institutionalization of author production as the management of ontological products; Ontological derivatives, puffery, and the performance imperative; Conclusion; 5: Celebration and Governing: The Production of the Author as Ascetic Practice; Celebration and governing; The production of the inscribed author as the production of subjectivity
The abstraction of the inscribed authorPopularity as production and the valorization of visibility; Conclusion; 6: Matterphobia and Matterphilia: Artistic Discourse and Ascetic Production; Exhibiting matterphobia and matterphilia; "In the Land of Roles"38: The materiality of discursive formations; Immaterial Labor; Contemporary Ascetics; Discursive art and the art of ascetics; What do you think this is about,Tino Sehgal, 2003; "You can't talk about the work of Tino Sehgal if you have not experienced it firsthand."; Art as text, text as matter; "Am I allowed to talk about it?"; Conclusion
6 Matterphobia and Matterphilia: Artistic Discourse and Ascetic Production7 The Conclusion as the Contemporary Ascetic of Knowledge Production; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production is a critical, interdisciplinary approach to how the practices that govern the production of knowledge and culture have material consequences for how we experience everyday life.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Civilization—History.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Public law .
Social Theory.
Cultural History.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Public Law.