ABSTRACT
Embedded in a long tradition of demographic dystopias, which Spanish demographer Andreu Domingo examined in the popular literature of the last two centuries, contemporary discourses of demographic change raise a variety of questions. This chapter focuses on the order of demographic future knowledge and its discursive depth structures, in the sense of underlying orders of thought and communicational power. Foucault's manifold legacy allows examination of its conditions of possibility. The chapter analyses both of the discursive fields that provide the fundamentals of a specific contemporary governmentality of demographic change. It concerns the fabrication of demographic future knowledge, focuses on the underlying 'rationality' consisting of key categories, measures, and population projections in the scientific field, and the empirically situates 'garbled demography' in the present by describing discursive regularities in 3810 German media texts dating from 2000 to 2013. Finally, the chapter connects these discursive fields to 'demographization' and outlines a specific governmentality of demographic change.
