... will be illuminated. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Contrasting femininities on the streets of Hanoi. Photo by Christina Schwenkel Figure 1 Renova “makeover.” Photo by Erik Harms Ho Chi Minh City’s Beauty Regime: Haptic Technologies of the Self in the New Millennium Nina Hien...

... as a neoliberal technology of the self, with the Chinese nation‐state. It examines the understudied phenomenon of Crazy English, a language‐teaching enterprise that received unprecedented state patronage among such edu‐businesses in the decade of 1998–2008. Conceptualizing Crazy English as a self‐cultivation...

... experiments and technologies of the self. Benjamin further states that Father Künzle, unlike the physicians, does not bring “the illness out of the body’s dark deep spaces to reveal it in clinical Deuber- Mankowsky ∣∣ Popularity, Using the Example of Switzerland...

...Haerin Shin “Unlocking the Mindware: Taking Responsibility for the Solipsistic Self in Murakami Haruki’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ” addresses the issue of identity formation in relation to neuroscientific technologies by observing a phenomenon called (self-imposed) “locked...

... subjectivities and technologies of the self that are neither clearly socialist nor clearly neoliberal are being created.10 According to Foucault, “technologies of the self” refer to what “permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help...

... technology of insurance would solve the social problem by reincorporating the poor into the national community and would transform the poor into thrifty, responsible subjects. Nevertheless, the supporters of private firms managed to stave off the creation of a public insurance company until 1916, when...

... aid, technology, and urban planning expertise. A primary focus of urban reconstruction was Quang Trung communal housing, consisting of eighteen hundred apartments and dormitories in five-story buildings that housed more than eight thousand residents, mainly workers and veterans in need of housing...

... practice fidelity in response to an appeal, by offering oneself as an example, or by seeking to give one’s personal life a form that answers to criteria of brilliance, beauty, nobility, or perfection.”41 In Technologies of the Self, Foucault further...

... of the self” is evident.24 Different, however, from a Foucaultian notion of the making of the self through a process that leads from self-disclosure through self- renunciation to self-making, the technology of the modernizing subject I...

... instead called for more precise historical, ethnographic tracing of the emergence of neoliberal modes of governmentality, systems of knowledge and expertise, class sub- jectivities, and technologies of self in speci c social and cultural contexts...

... Foucault calls “gov- ernmentality,” which refers to ethical discourses and practices embedded in everyday life.22 Concomitant with the rise of governmentality for Foucault is a shift from technologies of domination to technologies of the self...

... the scholarly precedents for her analysis Iskra argues that while “English can be conceptualized as a neoliberal technology of the self that inculcates in learners the values of self-entrepreneurship and meritocracy,” it is at the same time an attempt “to reconcile the values of . . . patriotism/nationalism...

... 942 and the self — and observes that they operate in tandem rather than in isolation. This essay adopts Foucault’s expansive definition of technology, such that the mechanical clock is a tool to further both industrial...

... that this story highlights several of the techniques of government currently brought to bear on the production of moral, high-quality children. Disciplinary Grids: Children and Technologies of the Self The first point I wish to make about Teacher Cui’s...

... Books, 2007), 95 – 124. Deomampo ∣∣ Race, Nation, and the Production of Intimacy 331 13. Karen-­Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath, “Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics...

... that of the disciplinary regime to accommodate competing ideolo- gies, each internally heterogeneous but determined and circumscribed by distinct technologies of the self and the social order.” The first gesture in this argument is the move away from...

.... The self on-­screen is, of course, performed and mediated. There is also Hayter ∣∣ Japanese Modernism, Technology, Vitalism 309 an element of temporal alienation. Nothing dramatizes more poignantly the gap between the frozen time on-­screen...

... are they completely novel, articulating with Vietnamese politico- ethical tra- ditions linking self- cultivation and virtue to governance, historical formula- tions of human universalism, and technologies of accountability. In the time of virtue, HIV, along...

... technology into their visions and plans for constructing a rationalized, efficient, and optimal sociopolitical system in Japan and East Asia. Self-designated economic technicians or bureaucrats formulated poli- cies for building a planned...

... for the physical body is the film’s suggestion that perhaps the self can be abstracted from the body and lo- cated in thought and memory. But in the film, thoughts too are subject to the invasions of technology, and this reduction of the self to disembodied...