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'Governmentality: How Culture Trains Conduct' - Marina Iaroslavtseva

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Nov 13, 2025 from 02:00 to 04:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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SR 126 (GCSC)

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The workshop introduces governmentality as a framework of literary and cultural analysis. Working through Foucault (via Dean and Rose), we consider how novels, films, television and platform media problematize conduct, legitimate particular rationalities of rule (such as "family values", security, welfare), and mobilize techniques that constitute conduct. We consider how texts position subjects, organize spaces and exposures, and use affect as a relentless mode of control, and attend to breaks in routine where other possibilities open up.

Methodologically, the session unites close reading with minimal context of discourse, and distinguishes stated intention from immanent impact in form and affect through careful choice of paratexts and public reception. After a short introduction, participants break into groups in order to use the method on short, readable texts to demonstrate its portability from medium to medium and from level to level of study. The intention is to leave participants with a portable, reusable way of demonstrating how culture trains conduct and to share the method in their own research and teaching.

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