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SUMMARY:Sound Politics: Affective Governance and the State
LOCATION:Uris Hall G08\, Central Campus
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Michelle Weitzel (International Relations and Politica
 l Science\, Graduate Institute of Geneva)\n\nSince the early aughts\, pol
 icy makers\, states\, and military strategists have shown renewed interes
 t in better understanding the psychophysiological underpinnings of human 
 behavior and decision-making. Drawing on insights from psychology\, neuro
 science\, and behavioral economics\, as well as on emergent industry tren
 ds in marketing\, publicity\, and design\, this interest in “beyond-ratio
 nal” thinking is focused on precognitive\, embodied feeling as much as it
  is on the conscious mind. Insights from behavioral sciences have led to 
 an outpouring of new micro-techniques of governance\, sometimes termed “n
 udge policies\,” which purport to guide citizens toward beneficial choice
 s. However\, these studies and their resultant policies rarely grapple wi
 th the theoretical presuppositions coming from the interdisciplinary fiel
 d of sensory studies\, which has long insisted that the senses are cultur
 ally organized and politically consequential. Nor do they critically inte
 rrogate the ethical and political implications of policies that target th
 e subconscious\, particularly when these move beyond narrow policy initia
 tives and are applied more broadly in conflict settings. In this talk\, I
  tune in to the sensory register of the auditory\, asking what role sound
  plays in micro-techniques of politics and how this mode of perception ha
 s become entangled with everyday governance and statecraft. With a nod \n
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