Experimental Politics Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age

Contents......Page 7
Series Foreword......Page 9
Experimental Politics: Its Background and Some Implications......Page 11
Lazzarato’s Theoretical Coordinates......Page 15
Neoliberalism and Its Enemies......Page 26
Molecular Politics......Page 33
The Politics of Creativity......Page 37
Introduction to the French Edition......Page 45
1 The Government of Inequalities: Critique of Neoliberal Insecurity......Page 47
Foucault, at the Heart of the Intermittents’ Conflict and of the Neoliberal Transformation of Society......Page 49
What Is the “Social”?......Page 50
The Market according to the Neoliberals......Page 52
Inequality and Competition in the Cultural Labor Market......Page 54
The Meaning of a Neoliberal “Reform”......Page 56
Mixed Techniques of Discipline and Security......Page 57
More a Political Issue Than an Economic Problem......Page 59
Individualization as Depoliticization......Page 61
The Manufacture of “Human Capital” Entrepreneurs......Page 63
Some Remarks on the Limitations of the Foucauldian Analysis of Neoliberalism (1): Risk, Protection, and Financialization......Page 69
Some Remarks on the Limits of the Foucauldian Analysis of Neoliberalism (2): Private Property......Page 73
Some Remarks on the Limits of the Foucauldian Analysis of Neoliberalism (3): The “Silent Revolution” in Pension Funds......Page 76
Subjectification, Responsibility, and Workfare......Page 79
The Effects of the Power of Money: Debt as a Technique of Training for the “Responsibilization” (Culpabilization) of “Human Capital”......Page 82
The Tolerable Equilibrium of Precarity in Neoliberal Capitalism......Page 85
The State as Precursor......Page 87
The Management of the Dispute......Page 89
Cultural Politics......Page 90
The Critique of the “Artistic Critique” and Its Discontents......Page 94
The Political Limits of the Concept of the “Artistic Critique”......Page 97
The Sociological Perspective......Page 100
Equality and Freedom: “Social Critique” and “Artistic Critique” in the Welfare State......Page 104
New Forms of Governmentality......Page 106
From the Government of Souls to the Political Government of Men......Page 114
The Archipelago of Power Relations and the Definition of the Political......Page 120
The Production and Regulation of a New Type of “Unemployed”......Page 124
The Demise of Classical Forms of “Revolutionary Politics”......Page 129
The Event and History: Against Idealism......Page 132
Political Experimentation Today......Page 136
The Event, the World, and Subjectivity......Page 140
Counterconduct......Page 141
The “Ambiguities” and “Potentialities” of Molecular Counterconducts......Page 143
Foucault’s Turn to Ethics......Page 148
The Actualization of the Event and Molar Counterconducts (1): The Battle of Acts......Page 157
The Actualization of the Event and Molar Counterconducts (2): The Battle of Words......Page 160
The Battle of Knowledges......Page 163
Strategies: Molar and Molecular, Macro and Micro......Page 171
Struggles against the Molar and Molecular Techniques of the Apparatuses of Power......Page 173
The Molar and the Molecular in Micropolitics......Page 178
Micropolitics Is a Constructivism......Page 185
The Experience of Coordinations in France......Page 189
3 Economic and Subjective Impoverishment under Neoliberalism......Page 195
The New Division of the Sensible......Page 202
Equality of Kind, Equality of Power......Page 204
Art and Culture as Techniques for Governing Subjectivity......Page 206
Art, Market, Institution, and the Government of Publics......Page 208
Art and Industry: The Case of “Crossed Values”......Page 213
Resistance and Creation......Page 217
The Artistic Act as a Process of Subjectification and the Artist as Medium......Page 223
Nondialectical Techniques of Rupture and Subjectification......Page 226
Subjectivity and Belief......Page 229
The Aesthetic Paradigm......Page 238
The Expansion of the Utterance......Page 244
The Existential Function......Page 246
Appendix A: Kafka and the Production of Culpability......Page 253
Appendix B: Kafka, Art, Work, the Artist, and the Public......Page 257
Introduction......Page 267
Chapter 1: The Government of Inequalities......Page 269
Chapter 2: The Dynamics of the Political Event......Page 283
Chapter 3: Economic and Subjective Impoverishment under Neoliberalism......Page 292
Appendix A......Page 302
Appendix B......Page 303
Index......Page 305