ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION Foucault wrote of government as an art that can be discerned in the way people learned to govern themselves, accept government and govern others. His concept of ‘governmentality’ elides ‘government’ and ‘mentality’, providing a term that embraces psychology and politics and assumes a continuity between the rule of self, household and state whose interruption precipitates crises in all these areas. Governmentality is also about the personal and political activities that attend the reinvention of government in the self-processes which entail negotiating internal complexity, abandoning anthropocentricity and managing the boundary between internal and external which cyberspace enticingly confuses.
