1st Edition

Assembling Culture

Edited By Tony Bennett, Chris Healy Copyright 2011
224 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

If the social does not exist as a special domain but, in Bruno Latour’s words, as ‘a peculiar movement of re-association and reassembling’, what implications does this have for how ‘the cultural’ might best be conceived? What new ways of thinking the relations between culture, the economy and the social might be developed by pursuing such lines of inquiry? And what are the implications for the... Read more

1.Introduction: Assembling culture  Tony Bennett and Chris Healy
2.Becoming Peoples: ‘Counting heads in Northern wilds’  Evelyn Ruppert
3.The Ontological Politics of ‘Closing the Gaps’  Tim Rowse
4.The Agencement of Industrial Branch Life Assurance  Liz Mcfall
5.Brand as Assemblage: Assembling culture  Ceila Lury
6.Thinking with the Head: Race, craniometry, humanism  Kay Anderson and Colin Perrin
7.Museum, Field, Colony: Colonial governmentality and the circulation of reference  Tony Bennett
8.Reassembling Nuremberg, Reassembling Heritage  Sharon Macdonald
9.Assembling Art, Constructing Heritage: Buying and selling Titian, 1798 to 2008  Helen Rees Leahy
10.Assembling Media Culture: The case of mobiles  Gerard Goggin
11.On Assemblage: Indigenous knowledge and digital media (2003<2006), and HMS Investigator (1800<1805)  Helen Verran

Biography

Tony Bennett, Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Chris Healy, Associate Professor in Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne.