The Government Of Things
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Author | : Thomas Lemke |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1479829935 |
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"Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational understanding of political ontologies"--
Author | : Thomas E. Woods |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2009-02-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1596981067 |
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With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.
Author | : Richard Bacon |
Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849546169 |
Download Conundrum Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Government failure is affecting everyone. The single mum worried sick by a tax credit demand from HMRC to 'repay' thousands of pounds she never received; the family whose holiday was ruined because the Passport Office couldn't issue passports in time; the school that couldn't open at the start of term because CRB checks were being carried out by an organisation in meltdown; the farmers led to bankruptcy and even suicide by a Kafkaesque system for administering farm payments; and rail operators facing an uncertain future because the Department for Transport inadvertently landed the whole rail franchising system in chaos. Why is government getting it so wrong? Richard Bacon and Christopher Hope delve into the astonishing world of cock-ups and catastrophes and ponder why those at the top continue to fall short.
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1991-07-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226080451 |
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Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. There are also contributions of other scholars exploring modern manifestations of government.
Author | : Mike Huckabee |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1595230831 |
Download A Simple Government Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The New York Times bestseller that offers clear solutions to the key issues facing our nation. Armed with little money but a lot of common sense, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee surprised the nation by coming in second during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. He connected with millions of voters by calling for a smaller, simpler government that would get out of the way when appropriate. Now he's written a book that sums up the twelve things we really need from Washington to get the country back on the right track. These twelve essential truths can help us tone down the partisan rancor and return to the simple principles of the Founding Fathers: liberty, justice, personal freedom, and civic virtue. Huckabee is one of the country's most popular Republicans, and his voice will carry for years to come.
Author | : Citizens Against Government Waste |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 146685314X |
Download The Pig Book Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Author | : William D. Eggers |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1422166368 |
Download If We Can Put a Man on the Moon-- Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Six American flags stand on the moon - irrefutable proof of government's ability to overcome difficult challenges. Yet evidence of failure surrounds us, from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the 2008-09 economic meltdown to the chronic dysfunction of our urban schools. William D. Eggers and John O'Leary argue that playing the blame game is an exercise in futility. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, they go beyond partisan squabbles to take a look at the process by which government tackles its biggest challenges." "Based on a review of over seventy-five government undertakings in the United States and abroad, Eggers and O'Leary pinpoint what it takes to successfully bring a public-sector initiative from great idea to desired results. They distill this "Journey to Success" into a practical set of steps that every public initiative must go through to deliver on its promise." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Mercedes Bunz |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-11-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1509517499 |
Download The Internet of Things Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information. This has become known as 'the internet of things'. In this accessible introduction, Graham Meikle and Mercedes Bunz observe its promises of convenience and the breaking of new frontiers in communication. They also raise urgent questions regarding ubiquitous surveillance and information security, as well as the transformation of intimate personal information into commercial data. Discussing the internet of things from a media and communication perspective, this book is an important resource for courses analysing the internet and society, and essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the rapidly changing roles of our networked lives.
Author | : Milton Friedman |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0817954430 |
Download Why Government Is the Problem Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.
Author | : Thomas Lemke |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2011-02-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814752993 |
Download Biopolitics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debate The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of populations and the need to “govern” individuals and collectives lead to practices of correction, exclusion, normalization, and disciplining. In this lucidly written book, Lemke outlines the stakes and the debates surrounding biopolitics, providing a systematic overview of the history of the notion and making clear its relevance for sociological and contemporary theoretical debates.