Global Assemblages Anthropological Problems

Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-21

  Collier, Stephen J ^a   Ong, Aihwa ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Globalization; Political governance; Regionalisms; Social regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889282746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696569.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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1. We acknowledge the comments and suggestions of Jennifer Collier, Ruth Collier, Talia Dan-Cohen, Andrew Lakoff, Shannon May, Tobias Rees, and Antina von Schintzler. We also thank the contributors to this volume for their input on various formulations of the ideas in this chapter.
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18. See also Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury, and Jackie Stacey, Global Nature, Global Culture (London: Sage, 2000).
19. For example, Gilles Deleuze and Feix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987)
20. Gilles Deleuze, Foucault (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), particularly the chapter "A New Cartographer."
21. Sarah Franklin, "Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological," Chapter 4, this volume, p. 67.
22. Giorgio Agamben has pointed to the relationship between Foucault and Arendt in his Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998). The relationship between Foucault and Polanyi is, so far as we know, largely unexplored.
23. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Pantheon, 1971).
24. Biology, society, and culture are Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow's gloss on Foucault's triadic "finitudes" of life, labor, and language, in Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).
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27. Thus, Jeremy Bentham's social technologies were of central interest to both thinkers, although Polanyi seems to have thought more deeply about the relationship of such technologies to liberal thought.
28. Beck et al., Reflexive Modernization.
29. David Stark used this term at the workshop "Oikos and Anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure," Prague, The Czech Republic, April 2002.
30. Monique Girard and David Stark, "Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup," Chapter 16, this volume, p. 294.
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33. Niklas Luhmann, Observations on Modernity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
34. Giddens, "Living in a Post-Traditional Society," pp. 58-59.
35. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (London: Routledge, 1992), p. xxxviii.
36. Rees suggested the following interpretation of the distinction between Universalgeschichte (universal history) and Universelle (universal significance and validity).
37. Weber, The Protestant Ethic, p. 181.
38. For the original usage, see Max Weber, The Methodology of the Social Sciences (New York: Free Press, 1949).
39. The concept is also developed in Stephen J. Collier, "Post-Socialist City: The Government of Society in Neoliberal Times," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, December 2001.
40. Leo Strauss makes the distinction in these terms in "On Aristotle's Politics," in The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), pp. 14-15.
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43. Latour, Science in Action, p. 227.
44. Andrew Barry, Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society (New York: Athlone Press, 2001).
45. Vinh-kim Nguyen, "Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship," Chapter, 8, this volume, p. 143.
46. See Lawrence Cohen, "Where it Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation," Daedalus 128(4), 1999, pp. 135-165.
47. See Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift, "Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism-On a Global Scale," Chapter 15, this volume.
48. Elizabeth C. Dunn, "Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe," Chapter 10, this volume, p. 175.
49. Oxford English Dictionary Online; http://www.oed.com, 2003.
50. We acknowledge the help of Christopher Kelty in thinking through this image.
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52. Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore, "Cities and the Geographies of 'Actually Existing Neoliberalism,' " in Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe, Neil Brenner and Nik Theodor, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
53. Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus, "Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography," Chapter 13, this volume, pp. 236-237.
54. Giísli Pálsson and Paul Rabinow, "The Iceland Controversies: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue," Chapter 6, this volume, p. 94.
55. Pálsson and Rabinow, "The Iceland Controversies," p. 92.
56. See, for example, the chapters in David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds., The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2000).
57. Joseph Schumpeter, "The Crisis of the Tax State," International Economic Papers 4(7), 1954.
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59. Deleuze, "The Rise of the Social."
60. Olds and Thrift, "Cultures on the Brink," p. 272.
61. For one perspective on sovereignty and biopolitics, see Aihwa Ong, "Graduated Sovereignty in South-East Asia," Theory, Culture and Society 17(4), August 2000, pp. 55-75.
62. Donna Haraway, Cyborgs, Simians, and Women: The Re-Invention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991).
63. For work on neoliberal technologies of administration and remote satellite imaging, see Lyle Fearnley, "The Global Market and Technologies of Security: Shifting Strategies within U.S. Remote Sensing Satellite Programs," Columbia University, unpublished MS
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65. Ryan Bishop and John Phillips, "Unmanning the Homeland," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26(3), September 2002, pp. 620-625.
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