Royal palms: Exploring 1980s neoliberal characterisation through Foucauldian power and discourse
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Ben Stone Thesis
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This practice-led novel and exegesis explores the characterisation of an anecdotal 1980s Wall Street junket on Queensland's Gold Coast in terms of Foucauldian power and discourse. Problematising the subject's decentred ontology implied by the life sciences, Foucault's theories are adapted to illustrate characterisation as a site of discursive interpellation and contest in neoliberal fiction. Decentred, the subject as a scape of discursive practice reveals the struggle between 'personal discourse' and the organisational power of corporations. This has implications not only for character intentionality and artificial subjects, but provides a framework where humanism and organisational agency can be approached as an ontology of the self.
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| ID Code: | 132603 |
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (Master of Philosophy) |
| Supervisor: | Wilson, Rohan & Graham, Linda |
| Keywords: | creative practice-led research, Royal Palms by Ben Stone, neoliberal fiction blank fiction, Foucault, Foucauldian discourse analysis, power and bio-power, 1980s Wall Street junket, Gold Coast Queensland Australia, decentered subject, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis |
| DOI: | 10.5204/thesis.eprints.132603 |
| Divisions: | Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty |
| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
| Deposited On: | 20 Sep 2019 02:29 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2019 02:29 |
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