2025-09-20, 0949h
I just wrote Post to @emsenn@kolektiva.social, 2025-09-20 08:29h, On Oktoberfest as Bavarian genring and its relationship to Indianthusiasm and I want to go ahead and write through some of the claims and their theoretical referrants, in case i want to come back to the idea later.
- genre can be a technology of governance when liberal subjectivation is a mode of governance
- Michel Foucault, governmentality
- Juri Lotman, semiosphere, genre as semiotic code boundary
- John Frow, genre as protocol
- Benedict Anderson, imagined community
- Walter Benjamin, homogenous time, empty time
- interpellation via costuming and performingn
- Louis Althusser, interpellation
- Judith Butler, performativity, citationality
- Erving Goffman, dramaturgy
- Victor Turner, ritual process, social drama
- Richard Schechner
- affective economics and affective ontologizing make stereotypes feel true
- Sara Ahmed, affective economics, stickiness of affect
- Lauren Berlant, cruel optimism
- Brian Massumi on intensity and affect
- invented tradition creates the Volk
- Eric Hobsbawn, Terrence Ranger, invented tradition
- George L. Mosse, volkisch nationalism, Volksgemeinschaft
- colonial optics in and out the nation
- Patrick Wolfe, structure of settler-colonialism
- Philip J. Deloria, Playing Indian
- Shari M. Huhndorf, Going Native
- Michael Hechter, internal colonialism
- biopolitics and necropolitics, genre as necropolitical categorization mechanism
- Foucault again, biopower, biopolitics
- Achille Mbembe, necropolitics
- Giorgio Agamben, state of exception, Homo Sacer
- Michael Omi, Howard Winant, racial formation
- exhibitionary complexes train the national gaze:
- Tony Bennett, exhibitionary complex
- Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, culture industry
- Guy Debord, society of the spectacle
- Timothy Mitchell, world-as-exhibition
- genre + land = governance of space
- Elizabeth Povinelli, geontology, late liberalism
- Audra Simpson, refusal, Indigenous sovereignty
- Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, Decolonization is not a Metaphor
- Glen Sean Coulthard, political recognition versus Indigenous resurgence
- authenticity and crisis management
- Berlant’s cruel optimism again
- Mosse aesthetics of politics and mass choreography[fn:: Random thought, but what about connecting governing by genre, mass choreography, and the positivism shared by liberalism and the Church with Kurt Vonnegut’s quote about “peculiar travel instructions are dancing lessons from God.”]
- Benjamin’s mythic time and messianic time
- Frantz Fanon, national culture