TY - BOOK TI - Focault governmentality and critique SN - 9781594516382 U1 - 320.01 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Paradigm Publishers N1 - Introduction: The Subject and Power 1 -- An Analytics of Government -- The Juridico-Discursive Concept of Power -- A History of Governmentality -- Foucault's Hypothesis 2 -- A Genealogy of the Modern State -- The Historical Ontology of the State -- Technologies of Government: The Materiality of the State -- Strategies and State Effects -- Governmentality and Governance -- An Indigestible Meal? 3 -- Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Technologies of Security -- Liberalism and the Birth of Biopolitics -- Technologies of Security -- The Government of Fear -- The Risks of Security 4 -- Critique and Experience -- Recurrence: Critique as an Ethical-Political Gesture -- Rarity: Problematization as a History of Truth -- Relationality: The Art of Voluntary Insubordination -- Risk: The Audacity to Expose Oneself as a Subject -- A Critical Ontology of Ourselves 5 -- From Foucault's Hypothesis to Studies of Governmentality -- Governmentality and the Analysis of Neo-Liberalism -- Problems, Limitations, and Blind Spots -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Literature -- Index -- About the Author ER -