Making Culture, Changing Society

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