4 documents
Christian Laval
Christian Laval
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 52 out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 6, 2014
Institution
# 52
The New Way of the World, Part II: The Performance/Pleasure Apparatus
Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval
Risk: A Dimension of Existence and an Imposed Lifestyle
The new subject is regarded as the possessor of a “human capital”—a capital to be accumulated through enlightened choices that are the fruit of responsible calculation of costs and benefits. The results achieved in life are the result of a series of decisions and efforts that come down exclusively to the individual and require no special compensation in the event of failure, other than that provided for by voluntary private…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2014
Category
Economy, Labor & Work, Capitalism, Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Subjects
Neoliberalism, Money & Finance
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 51out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 7, 2014
Institution
# 51
The New Way of the World, Part I: Manufacturing the Neoliberal Subject
Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval
The conception of society as an enterprise made up of enterprises comprises a new subjective norm, which is no longer precisely that of the productive subject of industrial societies. The neoliberal subject in the process of being formed, some of whose main features we wish to delineate here, is the correlate of an apparatus of performance and pleasure that is currently the subject of numerous works. There is no absence of descriptions of hypermodern, uncertain, flexible, precarious, fluid,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2014
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Economy, Capitalism, Labor & Work
Subjects
Neoliberalism, Subjectivity