Correlatives of Liberalism: Melville's Managers and the Microphysics of Security
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I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby. Masterly I call it, and such it
must appear to any dispassionate thinker. The beauty of my procedure seemed to consist in its perfect quietness.
—Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
More precisely and particularly, freedom is nothing else but the correlative of the deployment of apparatuses of security.
—Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population
Introduction: Liberalism's Correlatives Marked by a complex of origins as well as subsequent manifestations, liberalism shares with security important, though not always isomorphic, affiliations—points of departure, connections, and contingencies.1 Security's philological…
