The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality Colin Gordon, Graham Burchell, Peter Miller
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

The broader work of Foucault has used to discuss conflict management in games and virtual worlds (MacKinnon, 1997), the 'work' of power gamers (Silverman and Simon, 2009), the creation of productive player populations (Kücklich, 2009), and lateral surveillance between players (Taylor, 2006b). Michel Foucault, “Governmentality,” in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, ed. Stuart Murray's 'Care and the self: biotechnology, reproduction, and the good life' utilizes Foucault's. Finally, I emphasize how both . Michel Foucault situates the emergence of laissez-faire liberalism within the history of what he calls governmentality: the attempt to coordinate state power, the economic management of the population, and individual self-discipline as elements of a total “art of government.”5 According to Foucault, laissez-faire emerged as a .. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). The effect of this has been that governmentality studies have focused heavily on (neo)liberal government and subjectivity, emphasizing how people are governed, and govern themselves, “through freedom” (Rose 1999). Exposing the violence embedded in these .. € Burchell, Graham; Gordon, Colin; Miller, Peter (eds). This literature however draws on too narrow a conception of freedom thereby leaving comparatively unexplored the broader implications of the analytics of government that Foucault initiated. Thirdly, I draw from two case studies that employ governmentality and ANT, in order to briefly postulate potential methods for researching control in games. April 18, 2012 lyhiyhendus Leave a comment Go to comments. (1987) A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 199, “ Peculiar Interests: Civil Society and Governing the System of “Natural Liberty” in Burchell, M., Gordon, C., Miller, P. Eds., The Foucault Effect, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Studies in governmentality allow us to clearly see that liberalism is not in fact value-neutral but rests on strong and well founded epistemological and ontological assumptions. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Importantly, the 'care of the self' articulated through the self promotes an ethics that in its individualism may fail to account for the interaction of the individual in society; for their responsibility within that society; and for the effects of their lives upon Third, the predominant understanding of 'the conduct of conduct' in governmentality studies is as a technology of power that is coercive. *The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality *The Emergence of Probability and *The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking, on the rise of modernity.