{"id":9730,"date":"2017-02-08T22:12:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-a-clear-concise-reading-of-an\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:23:21","slug":"shrinkrants-a-clear-concise-reading-of-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-a-clear-concise-reading-of-an\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9730 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-a-clear-concise-reading-of-an\/attachment\/9731\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mvnjovq0ub1rbuuryo1_r1_250-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shrinkrants.tumblr.com\/post\/65815084910\/a-clear-concise-reading-of-an-important-bit-of\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">shrinkrants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A clear, concise reading of an important bit of late Foucault, explaining \u00a0why his work is important for critiques of 21st century capitalism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote\">\n<div>As Foucault explained in The Birth of Biopolitics (2008), the rise of neoliberalism\u2014his use of the noun\u2014marked a radical transformation: whereas before, the state, among its various bureaucratic operations, \u201cmonitored\u201d the workings of the economy, its \u201corganizing principle\u201d is now the market. Government actually has become business. And nation-states have become holding companies in and for themselves. In the upshot, the categorical distinction between politics and economics, that classical liberal fiction, is largely erased. Effective governance, in turn, is measured with reference to asset management, to the attraction of enterprise, to the facilitation of the entrepreneurial activities of the citizen as homo economicus, and to the capacity to foster the accumulation\u2014but not the redistribution\u2014of wealth. Under these conditions, heads of state begin to resemble, and often actually are, CEOs who treat the population as a body of shareholders\u2026<br \/>Once upon a time, antineoliberal theory posited an opposition between the state and the free market, arguing that the antidote to the latter lay in the active intervention of the former. But the opposition is false, just another piece of the detritus of the modern history of capital. As states become mega-corporations (Kremlin, Inc.; Britain, PLC; South Africa, Pty Ltd.; Dubai, Inc.)\u2014all of them, incidentally, branded and legally incorporated\u2014they become inextricably part of the workings of the market and, hence, no longer an \u201coutside,\u201d an antidote, or an antithesis from which to rethink or reconstruct \u201cthe neoliberal paradigm.\u201d This, in part, is why government is increasingly reduced to an exercise in the technical management of capital, why ideologically founded politics appear dead, replaced by the politics of interest and entitlement and identity\u2014three counterpoints of a single triangle. And this is why the capillaries of neoliberal governance seem so firmly entrenched in the cartography of our everyday lives, there to remain for the foreseeable future\u2014to the degree that any future is foreseeable.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"source\">\u2014\u2002John Comaroff, The End of Neoliberalism? What is Left of the Left<\/div>\n<p>(via\u00a0<a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rhizombie.tumblr.com\/\">rhizombie<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shrinkrants: A clear, concise reading of an important bit of late Foucault, explaining \u00a0why his work is important for critiques of 21st century capitalism: As Foucault explained in The Birth of Biopolitics (2008), the rise of neoliberalism\u2014his use of the noun\u2014marked a radical transformation: whereas before, the state, among its various bureaucratic operations, \u201cmonitored\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2wW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9732,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}