This essay intends to focus on different forms of political subjectivation within the context of neoliberal governmentality. It would like to show how these forms ‘constitute’ themselves ambivalently, indicating a paradoxical and unprecedented compatibility of dispositifs of inclusion and exclusion, the foundation of which refers to the symbolic ‘ideological’ construction of otherness. Neoliberal governmentality is, precisely, this unprecedented compatibility. With this aim in mind, The author proposes to focus on a particular case analyzed by Aiwha Ong (2003). It is an example that helps understand this ambivalence, which pushes itself to the point of deconstructing indentitary subjectivities, in the place of which mobile forms of relationship and practice appear.
Political Subjectivations: Between Freedom and Dependency
TUCCI, Antonio
2016
Abstract
This essay intends to focus on different forms of political subjectivation within the context of neoliberal governmentality. It would like to show how these forms ‘constitute’ themselves ambivalently, indicating a paradoxical and unprecedented compatibility of dispositifs of inclusion and exclusion, the foundation of which refers to the symbolic ‘ideological’ construction of otherness. Neoliberal governmentality is, precisely, this unprecedented compatibility. With this aim in mind, The author proposes to focus on a particular case analyzed by Aiwha Ong (2003). It is an example that helps understand this ambivalence, which pushes itself to the point of deconstructing indentitary subjectivities, in the place of which mobile forms of relationship and practice appear.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
