Culture, Politics and Governing

Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production is a critical, interdisciplinary approach to how the practices that govern the production of knowledge and culture have material consequences for how we experience everyday life.

1. Introduction: The Politics of Ascetics and Governing 2. Academies of Exhibition and the New Disciplinary Secession 3. The Man from Somewhere: Author, Affiliation, and Letterhead 4. The Institutionalization of Author Production and the Performance Imperative as an Ontological Fiction 5. Celebration and Governing: The Production of the Author as Ascetic Practice 6. Matterphobia and Matterphilia: Artistic Discourse and Ascetic Production 7. The Conclusion as the Contemporary Ascetic of Knowledge Production