Everyday Neoliberalism and the Subjectvity of Crisis: Post-Political Control in the Era of Financial Turmoil

Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies

关键词: IPE;    Crisis;    Capitalism;    Neoliberalism;    Constructivism;    Foucault;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

As the financial crisis has progressed from its immediate origins in 2008 as a US-basedcredit crunch to a global economic emergency, Constructivist IPE scholarship has turnedto social norms and expectations not only as variables explaining its origins, but also asfactors constraining its resolution. In this article I suggest that while such work doesusefully identify the role of 'everyday' values, and struggles, in shaping the game ofcontemporary financial life, it avoids discussing the fundamental role of capitalistpractices of valorisation in sustaining this life. To make my case I invoke Foucault'sdiscussion of neoliberal 'crisis subjectivity' and the closely attendant notion of humancapital, suggesting a need to examine neoliberal technologies of the self. However, Iexpand on Foucault's arguments in this respect to show how his comments onneoliberalism posit not only a 'positive' ontology of subjectification but also make stronghints towards a theory of immanent social control through the market, akin to thatoutlined by Deleuze. In more recent formulations of the crisis, such as in Hardt andNegri's Commonwealth, this mode of control is posed as the only such mode adequate toa regime of capitalist valorisation that is itself premised on the productive potential of thecommon. This move allows Hardt and Negri, rightly, to associate today's crisis with amore profound, ontological crisis, grounded in the relative autonomy of labour fromcontemporary capitalist command.

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