governmentality Archive

  • When Rebecca Tiger came to my class to give a guest lecture, one of the most shocking things I learned about was SCRAMx, an alcohol monitoring device that “alcohol offenders” are FORCED to wear by our legal system. This seemed to me a blatant violation of privacy, and a fundamental […]

    Scrap SCRAMx

    When Rebecca Tiger came to my class to give a guest lecture, one of the most shocking things I learned about was SCRAMx, an alcohol monitoring device that “alcohol offenders” are FORCED to wear by our legal system. This seemed to me a blatant violation of privacy, and a fundamental […]

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  • How has the identity of the self been transformed through the cultural economy of entertainment and advertising? Laurie Ouellette and James Hay’s article “Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen” makes a persuasive arguement about the changing relationship between television and social welfare, saying “television is quite literally helping to produce a privatized system […]

    Entertainment and Identity Regulation

    How has the identity of the self been transformed through the cultural economy of entertainment and advertising? Laurie Ouellette and James Hay’s article “Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen” makes a persuasive arguement about the changing relationship between television and social welfare, saying “television is quite literally helping to produce a privatized system […]

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