CRM 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nikolas Rose, Industrial Revolution, Governmentality
24 Feb 2017
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Technologies of responsibilization: notion of the american dream. We have the notion that we (cid:272)a(cid:374) a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g so it (cid:373)akes us look irrespo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e"re (cid:374)ot (cid:373)eeti(cid:374)g those goals, it"s ours. You"re perso(cid:374)ally respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le for your su(cid:272)(cid:272)ess, failures, et(cid:272). The penal-welfare complex is governing the underclass through crime. Once you criminalize their behaviour, you can manage them. Not discipline but to minimize criminal conduct by reshaping the physical and social habitat, then reconfiguring space, taking pre-emptive and preventative measures and the(cid:374) if they (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t be affiliated then prison or probation. This causes us not to question, to just go along and sometimes even perpetuate ideas ourselves. This causes us to govern ourselves and others. The underclass refers to a variety of factors. The structural: focus is on process that produce economic inequality, poverty, social exclusion. The behavioural: the individual to be culpable for his or her misfortunes. Reconstituting their moral economics and instilling a sense of self government.
