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Culture and Society: Veridical, Material and Compositional
PerspectivesTONY BENNETT
CENTRE FOR CULTURAL RESEARCHUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY
Compositional perspectiveToews, David (2009) “The new Tarde: sociology after the end of the social,” Theory, Culture & Society 20, no. 5.
Michel Callon, Chains of translationThere isn’t a reality on the one hand, and a
re-presentation of that reality on the other. Rather, there are chains of translation. Chains of translation of varying lengths. And varying kinds. Chains which link things to texts, texts to things, and things to people. And so on.
Australian space of lifestyles2 – λ2 = 0.1163
-0.8 -0.4 0 0.4 0.8
-1.0
-0.5
0
0.5
1.0
Bk<1w eek
Film+
Film-
F.drama
F.w esterns
Rock.yes
Rock.no
Orch.yes
Orch.no
Opera.yes
Live.yes
Live.no
M+Rock
M+Country/Folk
M-Country/Folk
Bk>1year
Writing.yesTheatre.yes
Theatre.no
B.novels
Surf0
B-no
Gallery-
Gallery+
Museum+
Draw ing.noDraw ing.yes
Painting.no
Painting.yes
ArtPoster.no
ArtPoster.yes
ArtEdition.yesEatOut+
EatOut-Guest.usual
Guest.specialAerob0
Wine
Softdrink
Sport.regularly
Sport.neverNoSport
WaterSport
AthleticSport
Sw im>=1
Sw im0
Walkcyc0Aerob>=1
Surf>=1
WorkOut>=1
WorkOut0
Distribution of Australian classes across the space of lifestyles
-0.5 0 0.5 1.0
-0.8
-0.4
0
0.4
0.8
Axe 1
Axe 2
Employers
Small Employers
Ow n Account Workers
Managers
Professionals
Para-professionals
Supervisors
Sales and Clerical W
Manual Workers
Distribution of British classes across the space of lifestyles
12 Occupational Classes, Plane 1-2
-1.0 -0.5 0 0.5 1.0
-0.75
0
0.75
1.50
Factor 1 - 5.33 %
Factor 2 - 3.86 %
12 occupational classes, Plane 1-2
Employers large orga
Higher professional
Low er profes/high te
Low er managerial
Higher supervisory
Intermediate occupat
Employers small orga
Ow n account w orkers
Low er supervisory
Low er technician
Semi-routine occupatRoutine occupations
Michel Foucault, Hermeneutics of the SubjectFirst, there has to be a set of values ‘with a minimum
degree of coordination, subordination and hierarchy’ ;
Second, these values have to be ‘given both as universal but also as only accessible to a few’ so as to produce ‘a mechanism of selection and exclusion’.
Third , ‘a number of precise and regular forms of conduct are necessary for individuals to be able to reach these values,’
Fourth, the techniques for acquiring those values have to be taught, transmitted, and validated as parts of the operation of a ‘field of knowledge’
Ontological politicsLaw, John and John Urry (2004) ‘Enacting the social’, Economy and Society, 33 (3), 390-410.
Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose (2008) ‘Populating sociology: Carl Saunders and the problem of population’, Sociological Review, 56 (4), 552-578
Bruno Latour, Reassembling the SocialCulture does not act surreptitiously behind
the actor’s back. This most sublime production is manufactured at specific places and institutions, be it the messy offices of the top floor of Marshal Sahlins’s house on the Chicago campus or the thick Area Files kept in the Pitts River (sic) museum in Oxford.
The relational museumMuseums emerge through thousands of relationships …;
through the experiences of anthropological subjects, collectors, curators, lecturers, and administrators, among others, and these experiences have always been mediated and transformed by the material world, by artefacts, letters, trains, ships, furniture, computers, display labels, and so on. No one person or group of people can completely control the identity of a museum. Museums have multiple authors, who need not be aware of their role nor even necessarily of being willing contributors. But, however else each person’s involvement differs, all of their relationships cohere around things. It is objects that have drawn people together, helped to define their interactions, and made them relevant to the Museum.
Bildung and aesthetic technologiesReinhart Koselleck, (2002) ‘On the
anthropological and semantic structure of Bildung’6, in The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts. Stanford, C.A.: Stanford University Press.