Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality
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This article presents a new account of the relationship between Michel Foucault’s work and neoliberalism, aiming to show that is significantly more complicated than either critics or defenders have appreciated in recent controversy. On one hand, I argue salutary response some Gary Becker’s ideas lecture course from 1979 should be read together with argument Discipline Punish. By means this contextualization sympathetic Becker limited domain penal practices, specifically concerning question how resist their rationality normalization, thus it involves no broader commitment neoliberal economic theory its political implications. other however, there strategic allegiance ascendance governing, although has nothing do his engagement work. Instead, explain focus on stakes subjectivity helped congeal, posthumous context, conception politics leaves out topic equality. To had unintended yet lasting effect, introduce concept topical exclusion. It designates social mechanism producing ignorance, which operates by directing attention instead creating false consciousness. The neoliberalism today illustrates type explanation essential analysis power relations. Thus, my motivates adoption exclusion as conceptual supplement equips Foucaultian framework study cases relations harness, produce, sustain not knowledge.
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Inquiry
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1539-7858', '0093-1896']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/715986