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Der Beitrag wendet sich gegen die Idee, die Studies of Governmentality in ein festgelegtes Methodenset zu verwandeln, das, in Lehrbüchern zusammengefasst, Studierenden ausgehändigt werden kann. Das Leitmotiv des Autors lautet deshalb: "Studies of Governmentality" ja, "Governmentality Studies" nein. Der zweite Teil untersucht vor diesem Hintergrund Fragen der Gouvernementalität des moralischen Lebens im neoliberalen Zeitalter. Plädiert wird für eine moralisch-ethische Position, die - paradoxerweise - dazu führt, sich überhaupt gegen Ethiken als solche zu wenden. Die Geschichte der Technologien der Subjektivität - und hier insbesondere zur Gouvernementalität der Selbstachtung - wird als Beispiel analysiert. Etwas, das ganz privat zu sein scheint, das von unten kommt, das Empowerment ist und den Idealen und Praktiken der Freiheit dient, stellt sich als eine der Schlüsseltechnologien heraus, mit denen "einige der reichsten Menschen der Weltgesellschaft versuchen, ihre Lebensführung als vorbildlich zu verkaufen". Der springende Punkt ist die Idee der Freiheit. Die Stärke der Studies of governmentality liegt darin, das etwas, das zunächst der Freiheit dienlich scheint, kritisiert und problematisiert wird und auf diese Weise zweideutig, wenn nicht unmöglich gemacht wird. (ICA2)

"Governmentality and Biopolitics" published on by Oxford University Press.

Although Machiavelli would appear to be only a minor figure in Foucault's genealogy of modernity, this article examines his 1977-1978 lectures at the College de France and argues that the author of The Prince plays a pivotal role in the development of 'governmental reason' and its critique. These lectures indicate how The Prince serves as the negative touchstone for the emergence of an extensive and evolving discourse on government, confirming that Machiavelli was more than a passing interest for Foucault. I consider two 'Anti-Machiavellian' episodes in Foucault's genealogy as especially significant: the sixteenth-century discourses of the state and the eighteenth-century discourses of political economy. These moments are significant both in showing how the idea of government hinges on a repudiation of the political lessons of The Prince and in establishing the link between governmentality and another term so important for Foucault's thinking in this period -- biopower. Finally, I show how the art of critique -- or, what Foucault describes as 'the art of not being governed quite so much' -- finds a timely resource in the (still live) figure of Machiavelli. Adapted from the source document.

This article reviews how the analytics of governmentality have been taken up by scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. It explores the distinctive logics of "linguistic governmentality" understood as techniques and forms of expertise that seek to govern, guide, and shape (rather than force) linguistic conduct and subjectivity at the level of the population or the individual. Governmentality brings new perspectives to the study of language ideologies and practices informing modernist and neoliberal language planning and policies, the technologies of knowledge they generate, and the contestations that surround them. Recent work in this vein is deepening our understanding of "language"—understood as an array of verbal and nonverbal communicative practices—as a medium through which neoliberal governmentality is exercised. The article concludes by considering how a critical sociolinguistics of governmentality can address some shortcomings in the study of governmentality and advance the study of language, power, and inequality.