Human technologies, affect and the global psy-complex

Elise Klein, China Mills, Asha Achuthan, Eva Hilberg

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    Abstract

    Minds, behaviours and psyches are increasingly and explicitly problematized within social, economic, health, welfare, education and development policy, in both the global North and global South. While this shift is new, it also builds on a long colonial history of the constitution and governance of the ‘psy’. This special section considers these developments through critically engaging with them as human technologies whereby certain cognitions, affects and behaviours come to be made knowable, calculable and amenable to technological interventions and quantification. Starting with the concept of human technologies, this special section also seeks to extend it, troubling the prevailing account of technology’s role as governmentalization by placing this particular power/knowledge nexus in relation to other historical and current forms of power such as gender, race and coloniality. In this introduction to the special section, ‘Human technologies, affect and the global psy-complex’, we outline the conceptual and empirical contributions the collection of papers seeks to make.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)347-358
    Number of pages12
    JournalEconomy and Society
    Volume50
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

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