tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post5311975193769246422..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: What We Strive Forunemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-56610291464147669032009-06-20T13:52:43.465-04:002009-06-20T13:52:43.465-04:00Steve,
Thanks for writing, good point. Although ...Steve, <br /><br />Thanks for writing, good point. Although it occurs to me that when Shaviro defines security in the previous year's lectures, he stresses the artificiality of the disciplines, the fact that they operate in a constructed, closed space. This could be seen to reinforce your point about the similarity of disciplines and neoliberalism, which I like, but it seems to me that there is an implied trajectory from discipline to security to neoliberal governmentality. De Angelis analysis is useful for interrupting this trajectory, and reminding us for the continued usefulness of discipline. Moreover, he connects discipline to financialization, which, as Lazzarato points out, reminds the blind part of Foucault's analysis.unemployed negativityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-54790027441451680912009-06-20T10:28:16.881-04:002009-06-20T10:28:16.881-04:00Just very quickly -- & off the top of my head:...Just very quickly -- & off the top of my head: what you say about DeAngelis on Hayek & Bentham, and how this relates to Foucault, could be interestingly complicated by noting that, for Foucault, in the <i>Birth of Biopolitics</i> lectures, what differentiates neoliberalism from classical liberalism is precisely that the neoliberals no longer champion the market on the grounds of a primordial instinct to "barter, truck, and exchange," but instead champion the market because it compels everyone to engage in <i>competition</i>. In this sense, Foucault, analyzing neoliberal governmentality, is in accord with what DeAngelis identifies as the major feature of contemporary capitalism. Whether one wants to describe "the discipline of the market" so beloved by Hayek and Thatcher as a disciplinary mechanism or a mechanism of the control society is secondary to the way that, in both accounts, competition is what enforces the enclosure of the commons by capital.Steven Shavirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11863392248649173118noreply@blogger.com