... opportunities and restrictions simultaneously provided by neoliberal power. It is no accident that gender is a key prism through which agency in relation to joy is refracted. The subject of happiness has been an explicit concern for feminist and queer scholars, who have exposed how the imperative to act...

... prize. While at the same time media-generated conventional wisdom has tended to portray prize juries as acting either corruptly or irrationally. This article challenges such views, and argues that the prize jury needs to be understood as a form of political institution, in which decision rules, power...

... . The Rise of the Network Society . Oxford : Blackwell . Castells M. 1997 . The Power of Identity . Oxford : Blackwell . Castells M. 1998 . End of Millennium . Oxford : Blackwell . Crogan P. 1999 . “ Theory of State: Deleuze, Guattari, and Virilio on the State...

...Jeremy Valentine Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies Mark Gibson, Oxford and New York Berg 2007 228 + xi $29.95/£16.99 PB ISBN 9781845201173 © BERG 2009 PRINTED IN THE UK 2009 Any book that opens old wounds and makes a few new ones is to be welcomed and one...

...-professed “sunny disposition.” Accordingly, Cage conceived of music as striving toward a Jungian “transcendent function” ( Clarkson 2001: 94 ), which, he submitted, has the power to synthesize conscious cognition with the personal unconscious. For our purposes, the content of this function is less...

... part of what Miranda Fricker described as the “collective hermeneutical resource.” I then investigate how the power of this hermeneutic circulation has encouraged the recent association of philanthropy with a particular argument for how logics order society, which in turn reinforces Fricker’s...

...Erich Hörl; Nils F. Schott This contribution outlines several modes of becoming-environmental that characterize the development thanks to which environmentality [ Umweltlichkeit ] has become our condition today: the becoming-environmental of media, of power, of subjectivity, of world, of capital...

... with a guaranteed power supply, preventing the kind of citywide blackout that occurred in 1998. Local landowners and residents have initiated a political campaign against the planned grid upgrade, citing a range of problems such as health concerns, destruction of the visual appeal of the countryside and plummeting...

.... As political activity consists of an on-going and open-ended contest for power, the authors explain that comparison should not be about trying to draw functional equivalents between societies. Rather, it should consist in the painstaking work of “thick description,” engaging in the reconstruction of actions...

... of state power. Paranoia remains a political phenomenon that calls for analysis at the level of the structure of rule. The essay explores one approach to paranoia as a political category through an ideal-typical model drawn from Elias Canetti's classic 1960 text Crowds and Power . It concludes...

...Pollyanna Ruiz This article examines the practical and theoretical implications raised by protesters' use of masks to conceal themselves from the eyes of the state. It argues that the refusal to be seen and categorized by the state is empowering in that it exposes, and then unsettles, the power...

...Mark Featherstone In this review essay I explore three of Baudrillard's late works, Why Hasn't everything Already disappeared?, The Agony of Power , and Carnival and Cannibal , and explain how they represent his final word on the notion of integral reality and the intelligence of evil. Expanding...

... and disciplinary power; the second on biopower, security, and liberalism; and the third on the government of the self and others. Foucault in 1976–79 altered his earlier frame by introducing the concept of governmentality and security dispositif and identified a missing, fourth type of power-governmentality called...

... particular attention to the continuing importance of transport infrastructures. The key concerns are with the politics of differential power over—and access to—mobility, in both its actual and virtual modalities. The COVID-19 crisis is argued to have functioned both as a mode of amplification of many...

... power, by which the resistance , or the hegemony , and the opposition of low culture and high culture, are not simply discarded but integrated at a higher level. As a result of this revision, Tony Bennett has for years maintained his enthusiasm for the analysis of the makeup, organization...

...Vlad Ionescu Jean-François Lyotard's figural is read in relation to discourse . The figural introduces in aesthetics a sense of cultivating those moments of intensity that resist and escape all regulating power, be it linguistic discourse or the order of the conscious or political constraints...