This document contains summaries of several sources related to cultural research: 1) It discusses Michel Callon's concept of "chains of translation" where realities are not separate from their representations but linked through varying lengths and kinds of chains. 2) It outlines Michel Foucault's ideas about the prerequisites for values to function as principles of selection, including a hierarchy of values accessible only to some and techniques to acquire them through established fields of knowledge. 3) It examines Bruno Latour's argument that culture is manufactured in specific institutions through the relationships between people and objects, with museums emerging from thousands of such relationships mediated by material artifacts. 4) Finally, it references Reinhart Koselleck's

1. TONY BENNETT
CENTRE FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY

2. Compositional perspective
Toews, David (2009) “The new
Tarde: sociology after the end of
the social,” Theory, Culture &
Society 20, no. 5.

3. Michel Callon, Chains of translation
 There isn’t a reality on the one hand, and a re-
presentation of that reality on the other. Rather, there
are chains of translation. Chains of translation of
varying lengths. And varying kinds. Chains which
link things to texts, texts to things, and things to
people. And so on.

4. Australian tastes and social
position

5. Australian space of lifestyles
2 – λ2 = 0.1163
1.0
M+Rock
Rock.yes
0.5 Theatre.no Live.yes
B-no WorkOut>=1
Bk>1year Orch.noGallery- Sport.regularly
F.w esterns Painting.no Surf>=1
Sw im>=1
Walkcyc0 Film+
M-Country/Folk
Draw ing.no Aerob>=1
Guest.usual
EatOut- ArtPoster.no Draw ing.yes WaterSport
0
M+Country/Folk Aerob0
Guest.special ArtPoster.yes
Surf0
Softdrink
Film- WorkOut0 AthleticSport
Sw im0
Theatre.yes Writing.yes
NoSport Rock.no Painting.yes Bk<1w eek
Sport.never
EatOut+
Live.no F.drama ArtEdition.yes
-0.5
Wine
Orch.yes
Museum+ B.novels
Opera.yes
Gallery+
-1.0
-0.8 -0.4 0 0.4 0.8

6. British tastes and social position

7. Distribution of Australian classes
across the space of lifestyles
Axe 2
0.8
0.4
Sales and Clerical W Professionals
Manual Workers Para-professionals
Axe 1 Supervisors
0
Ow n Account Workers
Small Employers
Managers
Employers
-0.4
-0.8
-0.5 0 0.5 1.0

8. Distribution of British classes
across the space of lifestyles
12 Occupational Classes, Plane 1-2
Factor 2 - 3.86 %
1.50
12 occupational classes, Plane 1-2
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9. Michel Foucault, Hermeneutics of
the Subject
 First, there has to be a set of values ‘with a minimum
degree of coordination, subordination and hierarchy’ ;
 Second, these values have to be ‘given both as universal
but also as only accessible to a few’ so as to produce ‘a
mechanism of selection and exclusion’.
 Third , ‘a number of precise and regular forms of
conduct are necessary for individuals to be able to
reach these values,’
 Fourth, the techniques for acquiring those values have
to be taught, transmitted, and validated as parts of the
operation of a ‘field of knowledge’

10. Ontological politics
Law, John and John Urry (2004)
‘Enacting the social’, Economy and
Society, 33 (3), 390-410.
 Thomas Osborne and Nikolas
Rose (2008) ‘Populating sociology:
Carl Saunders and the problem of
population’, Sociological Review,
56 (4), 552-578

11. Bruno Latour, Reassembling the
Social
 Culture does not act surreptitiously behind the actor’s
back. This most sublime production is manufactured
at specific places and institutions, be it the messy
offices of the top floor of Marshal Sahlins’s house on
the Chicago campus or the thick Area Files kept in the
Pitts River (sic) museum in Oxford.

12. The ‘material turn’

13. Museums and materialities

14. The relational museum
 Museums emerge through thousands of relationships …;
through the experiences of anthropological subjects,
collectors, curators, lecturers, and administrators, among
others, and these experiences have always been mediated
and transformed by the material world, by artefacts,
letters, trains, ships, furniture, computers, display labels,
and so on. No one person or group of people can
completely control the identity of a museum. Museums
have multiple authors, who need not be aware of their role
nor even necessarily of being willing contributors. But,
however else each person’s involvement differs, all of their
relationships cohere around things. It is objects that have
drawn people together, helped to define their interactions,
and made them relevant to the Museum.

15. Object biographies and Indigenous
agency

16. Shape of the world (1)

17. Shape of the world (1)

18. Bildung and aesthetic technologies
 Reinhart Koselleck, (2002) ‘On the
anthropological and semantic structure of
Bildung’6, in The Practice of Conceptual
History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts.
Stanford, C.A.: Stanford University Press.

19. The ‘cultural city’

20. Electricity, culture, and the city

21. Jane Lydon (2005) Eye Contact: Photographing
Indigenous Australians, Duke University Press

22. Culture/natures