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Producing Pacification: The Disciplinary Technologies of Smart Bombs and National Anti-War Organizing

Culp, Andrew Curtis
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243983139

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
The disciplinary technology of pacification works as a tool, embedded within the logistical assemblage of liberalism, which works to maintain lines of force necessary for reproducing liberalism’s conditions for existence. Chapter One develops this conceptual framework, situating my approach in relation to Foucaultian scholarship on biopolitics and war. The proceeding chapters are an exploration of two different cases that demonstrate radically different contexts in which the pacification-assemblage-force assemblage is mobilized. In Chapter Two, I consider smart bombs as a disciplinary technology of pacification within the assemblage of ‘virtuous war’, tracing effects of the affective force of the bombs. And Chapter Three is a criticism of the current national anti-war strategy and concludes with a brief suggestion on a new paradigm – affectivism – that recenters a politics of resistance on deploying minor knowledge to produce new potentialities. Each one of the three elements of the triad, the disciplinary technology of pacification, the form of the concrete assemblage, and schematically mapping the topography of lines of force, are crucial components to the political analytics.
Eugene W. Holland (Advisor)
Philip Armstrong (Committee Member)
Mathew Coleman (Committee Member)
85 p.
American Studies; Geography; Philosophy; Political Science
Foucault; Deleuze; Politics; War; Peace; Virtuous War; Power; Disciplinary Power; Pacification; Bio-power; Biopolitics; Assemblage; Smart Bombs; IEDs; Anti-war; Protest; Resistance; Minor Science; Affect; Affectivism

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  • Culp, A. C. (2009). Producing Pacification: The Disciplinary Technologies of Smart Bombs and National Anti-War Organizing [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243983139

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Culp, Andrew. Producing Pacification: The Disciplinary Technologies of Smart Bombs and National Anti-War Organizing. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243983139.

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  • Culp, Andrew. "Producing Pacification: The Disciplinary Technologies of Smart Bombs and National Anti-War Organizing." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243983139

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