Postmodern self-exploitation and modern slaveries. Reflections on neoliberal subjectivity

Abstract:

In this paper we wish to show the weakness or, to be more precise, the partiality of certain analyses of neoliberal subjectivity. We will do so since it is usually from their point of view that the labour system which is specific to and typical of a tiny portion of the world population is considered as if it were a hegemonic and all-encompassing system, when the truth is that not even in the countries of the Global North is it the widespread system of the majority. With this theoretical approach, which also takes on Western-centric nuances, the ways of life and labour systems of vast human geographies of the South (but also of the North), which do not all fall within the parameters of this subjectivity, are overshadowed. In this regard, the analyses are correct in their description of neoliberal subjectivity, but they are mistaken when it comes to attributing to it the character of universality.

Año de publicación:

2019

Keywords:

• immaterial economy
• neoliberal subjectivity
• Postmodernity
• entrepreneur of the self
• self-exploitation

Fuente:

scopus