Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

dignity is something you get from other people, it’s in their eyes,

While we concur with this emphasis on neoliberalism’s operation across social life—what Wendy Brown calls its “stealth revolution” across the entire demos—we depart from accounts that regard the self called forth by neoliberalism as purely rational and calculating.53 To this we want to add an understanding of its dynamics at an affective or emotion