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The shift from liberalism to neoliberalism can be understood in this way. Economics is no longer an analysis of a process (think commodity production), but of an activity. It is no longer a logic of processes but instead a “strategic programming of individuals’ activity.” Foucault summarizes American neoliberalism this way: “American neoliberals say this: It is strange that classical political economy has always solemnly declared that the production of goods depends on three factors—land, capital, and labor—while leaving the third unexplored.”
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
A dynamical system can in fact be described by a single curve, upon which all the points satisfy the coefficient requirements: this is why dynamical systems are in effect static, so far as Bourdieu's field is concerned; they divorce whatever is to be modelled from time and therefore from change.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
The indifference of these systems to us and our powerlessness in the face of them in that moment becomes the indifference of society and our powerlessness to change it. In a flash, the welling irritation conveys instantly, reflexively, that solidarity must be impossible in a world where all human relations are machine-mediated.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
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