Culture, Politics and Governing : The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production

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. Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production investigates how the practices that govern the production of knowledge and culture have material consequences for how we experience everyday life. In a critical and interdisciplinary approach to governing, Patricia Mooney Nickel looks to artists and intellectuals including Gustav Klimt, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Tino Sehgal, and Kenneth Goldsmith, to explore the themes of institutionalization, ontology, and valorization, as they relate to ascetics. These portraits demonstrate not only how contemporary rituals of knowledge production potentially inhibit the emergence of critical subjectivities, but also how such rituals have been resisted Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction: The Politics of Ascetics and Governing....Pages 1-22 Academies of Exhibition and the New Disciplinary Secession....Pages 23-40 The Man from Somewhere: Author, Affiliation, and Letterhead....Pages 41-69 The Institutionalization of Author Production and the Performance Imperative as an Ontological Fiction....Pages 71-89 Celebration and Governing: The Production of the Author as Ascetic Practice....Pages 91-111 Matterphobia and Matterphilia: Artistic Discourse and Ascetic Production....Pages 113-137 The Conclusion as the Contemporary Ascetic of Knowledge Production....Pages 139-144 Back Matter....Pages 145-191