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.