Putting the technological into government

This paper explores a series of themes raised by a certain use of the term ’technology’, particularly in expressions such as ’technology of power’ or, more particularly, ’technology of government’. Under the influence of Michel Foucault, these terms have entered both the history of the human sciences and the study of ’government’ conceived as the ’conduct of conduct’, that is, the study of the practices, techniques and rationalities involved in the calculated shaping of human capabilities and structuring the field of possible actions. Indeed the concept of technology of government might be said to provide the crucial linchpin that links the development of the human sciences to the ways in which various authorities and agencies have sought to govern the conduct of

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