Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: reframing political thought......Page 15
1 Governing......Page 29
Governmentality......Page 34
Rationalities......Page 38
Intelligibility......Page 42
Governable spaces......Page 45
Territorializing governmental thought......Page 48
Spatializing the gaze of the governors......Page 50
Modelling the space of government......Page 51
Governable subjects......Page 54
Translation......Page 61
Technologies......Page 65
Diagnosis......Page 69
2 Freedom......Page 75
Freedom......Page 77
The history of freedom......Page 80
Freedom as discipline......Page 83
Freedom as solidarity......Page 92
Freedom as autonomy......Page 97
Consumption......Page 99
Therapeutics......Page 103
The politics of freedom today......Page 107
3 The social......Page 112
The moral technologies of discipline......Page 115
Disciplining the colonies......Page 121
The invention of the social......Page 126
Government from the social point of view......Page 133
The social citizen......Page 147
Beyond the social state......Page 149
4 Advanced liberalism......Page 151
Marketizing economic life......Page 156
Fragmenting the social into a multitude of markets......Page 160
Experts and bureaucrats......Page 161
Beyond planning......Page 163
Accounting and accountability......Page 165
The audit explosion......Page 167
The shadow of the law......Page 169
Employees into entrepreneurs......Page 170
A new prudentialism......Page 172
From disciplinary pedagogy to perpetual training......Page 174
Making citizens consumers......Page 178
Active citizenship?......Page 179
5 Community......Page 181
Diagnosis......Page 187
Political subjectivity......Page 190
Communitarianism......Page 193
Between security and autonomy......Page 198
The community-civility game......Page 201
Technologies of community......Page 202
Morality or ethics?......Page 205
One community or many?......Page 207
Fixing identities or unworking identities?......Page 208
6 Numbers......Page 211
The social history of numbers......Page 214
Undemocratic and democratic numbers......Page 223
Calculating authorities: the census......Page 229
Counting subjects: representation and democracy......Page 235
Calculating citizens: numbers and subjectivity......Page 238
An economy of numbers......Page 241
Figuring out democracy......Page 245
7 Control......Page 247
The securitization of identity......Page 254
The securitization of habitat......Page 260
The fortress city......Page 264
Exclusion: circuits of insecurity......Page 267
Problematizing exclusion......Page 268
Managing risk......Page 273
From dependency to activity......Page 277
Technologies of activity......Page 282
The penal-welfare complex......Page 284
Diagrams of control......Page 286
Conclusion: beyond government......Page 288
Bibliography......Page 299
Index......Page 321