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The Modern Drama of coup d'État and Systems of Discipline: Foucault and Political Ceremony
Author(s) -
Akbalik Bilge
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12232
Subject(s) - governmentality , sovereignty , ceremony , politics , drama , discipline , power (physics) , democratization , sociology , reading (process) , michel foucault , law , political science , aesthetics , humanities , philosophy , literature , social science , art , democracy , theology , physics , quantum mechanics
The objective of my comments is to draw attention to the complex relationship between the juridico‐political model of sovereignty and disciplinary power in Foucault's work. I suggest that Elden's reading of Foucault and Shakespeare opens up new ways to understand contemporary forms of governmentality through a genealogy of political ceremony and theatricality. More specifically, my comments seek to show that an examination of the ceremoniality of coup d'État in connection with what Foucault calls the “democratization of sovereignty” is potentially fruitful for examining modern forms of the government of civil society and counterconduct.