Administration I: The State, the Fact, and Double-Entry Bookkeeping

In the following two chapters, I want to show that lists operate not only in fields of knowledge related to cultural production, commodity circulation, and self-identification as outlined in Chapter two, but also in establishing administrative apparatuses that police and observe subjects. We move from observing the role of lists in making knowledge to what Hacking calls ‘making up people’,¹ from lists of words and things to lists of numbers and human beings, from cultural economies to protocols of governmentality. Listing is again conceived as a cultural technique of order and enumeration that processes the distinctions andcaesuraethat establish