Pub Date : 2020-06-10DOI: 10.1057/s41286-020-00096-8
John Welsh
By positioning academic rankings as the telos of audit culture, the paper tries to demonstrate the transformative political reason that is immanent to the emergence of rankings. Given the imperatives in historical capitalism both to govern and to accumulate, rankings are analysed as an apparatus of social transformation for the production of more governable subjectivities for capital. The paper presents how rankings operate as one of the material-semiotic-affective apparatuses of capitalist governmentality, and how that apparatus both is constituted as a system of objects and in turn constitutes subjects of control. Perhaps most significantly, by understanding rankings simultaneously as ‘semiologies of signification’ and ‘asignifying semiotics’, a dialectical space of struggle over subjectivity production can be realised and a praxis of counter-conduct and resistance be conceived.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1057/s41286-020-00099-5
G. Bhattacharyya
{"title":"A letter from the unknown reader","authors":"G. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1057/s41286-020-00099-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00099-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47286143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-10DOI: 10.1057/s41286-020-00091-z
C. Venn
{"title":"Individuation, relationality, affect: rethinking the human in relation to the living","authors":"C. Venn","doi":"10.1057/s41286-020-00091-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00091-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/s41286-020-00091-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49410527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-18DOI: 10.1057/s41286-020-00094-w
Ashwani K. Sharma
{"title":"For Couze: on Occidentalism: modernity and subjectivity (2000)","authors":"Ashwani K. Sharma","doi":"10.1057/s41286-020-00094-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00094-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/s41286-020-00094-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58561465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-18DOI: 10.1057/s41286-020-00092-y
Julian F. Henriques
{"title":"Couze & the Subject","authors":"Julian F. Henriques","doi":"10.1057/s41286-020-00092-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00092-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/s41286-020-00092-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58561714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.1057/s41286-020-00088-8
J. Gilbert
{"title":"Remembering Couze Venn, who loved life in all its complexity","authors":"J. Gilbert","doi":"10.1057/s41286-020-00088-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00088-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/s41286-020-00088-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58561328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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