Poliittiset rationalisaatiot ja hallintatekniikat

Authors

• Peter Miller
• Nikolas Rose

Abstract

In this paper we have argued that contemporary programmes of government operate through the proliferation of a complex and heterogeneous assemblage of technologies. The government of social relations has been achieved not through the constant rise of an omnipotent central state which exerts an increasingly tight control over its subjects. Rather the government of social relations in achieved by providing citizens as economic and social actors with a vast range of technologies through which they can instrumentalise the diverse spheres of social life themselves. Political power is to be exercised not through the domination of subjects but through the construction of a web of technologies for fabricating and maintaining selfgovernment. The political subject is henceforth to be an individual whose citizenship is manifested through the free exercise of personal choice amongst a variety of marketed options. In such a political rationality the self is not merely enabled to choose, but obliged to construe his or her life in terms of an infinite variety of choices and decisions.