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Celebration and governing: the production of the author as ascetic practice

This essay explores the power relations inherent to the contemporary practice of celebration of author production and present relations of governing. I explore such practices of celebration as a lens for understanding the role of valorization of the author in knowledge production, arguing that celebration can act as an ascetic technology that governs potentially transformative critical subjectivities. I begin with an exploration of the relationship between celebration and governing. Next, I consider the production of the author within this regime of governing as a production of celebration, focusing on the ways in which contemporary knowledge production prizes visibility as a source of valorization. Finally, I conclude that the valorization of visibility achieved through celebration discourages critical thought about the underlying assumption that productivity and quantification manifest in visibility are the exclusive foundations of judgment about contemporary knowledge production and its contribution to human well-being.