Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Severing the aesthetic connection
  • Texts, readers, reading formations
  • Figuring audiences and readers
  • Culture and governmentality
  • Acting on the social : art, culture, and government
  • Archaeological autopsy : objectifying time and cultural governance
  • Civic seeing : museums and the organisation of vision
  • Intellectuals, culture, policy : the technical, the practical, and the critical
  • The historical universal : the role of cultural value in the historical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.