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The List Serves: Population Control and Power.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werbin, Kenneth C., Author.
- Series:
- Theory on Demand ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biopolitics.
- Computational intelligence.
- Historiography.
- Information commons.
- Mathematics.
- Technology and the arts.
- Art and technology.
- Computation.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Essay Collection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Institute of Network Cultures, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Inspired by taxonomist Jack Goody's theorizing of "ancient lists" as "intellectual technologies," this book analyzes listing practices in modern and contemporary formations of power, and how they operate in the installation and securing of the milieus of circulation that characterize Michel Foucault's conception of governmentality. Propelling the list's role in the delimitation and policing of risky and threatening elements from out of history and into a contemporary analysis of power, this work demonstrates how assemblages of computer, statistical, and list technologies first deployed by the Nazi regime continue to resonate significantly in the segmenting and constitution of a critical classification of contemporary homo sapiens: the terrorist class, or homo sacer."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- CC BY-NC-SA.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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