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Economy + Society Summer School Virtual Lecture Series:
Economic Theology & Governmentality: Mitchell Dean, 10.00, Thursday
11th of March
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Exploring the following themes: Foucault and Agamben in the present– Governmentality, economic theology and political theology as paradigms and analytical strategies
– Methodological orientations, e.g. signature, arche, genealogy – Institutional and conceptual economic theology – The ordeal (l’épreuve): personal, economic, governmental – Liturgical politics – The political valence of theological analogies: exomologesis
and BLM - The plague doctors and the Leviathan – ‘The Last Man takes LSD’.
Mitchell Dean is a political and historical sociologist and social
theorist best known for his work Governmentality: power and rule in modern society, which holds the distinction of being cited in both The Oxford English Dictionary entry on government and in the first editions of Foucault’s lectures on the topic In French
and English. After many years as a Professor of Sociology at two Australian universities, he has lived and worked in Copenhagen for most of the last decade. His new book with Daniel Zamora, to be published in May, is The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the
End of Revolution (Verso).
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