Sublime

However, if one accepts that a meaningful notion of everyday life is inseparable from its fugitive anonymity, then it would be difficult to grasp what it might have in common with time spent in which one’s gestures are all recorded, permanently archived, and processed with the aim of predetermining one’s future choices and actions.

Edgar Cabanas et Eva Illouz notent que la révolution néolibérale des années 1980 a conduit au remplacement de la philosophie politique par la psychologie. Tout se voit ramené à l’intime. Cela permet de traiter « sous l’angle de la psychologie et de la responsabilisation individuelle les déficits structurels, les contradictions et les paradoxes

Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather

There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.

Society as laboratory We increasingly have the capacity to turn the whole of our society into a living laboratory in which to test new ideas of different kinds. There are thousands of local labs or testbeds worldwide, covering topics as varied as drones and care for the elderly. This idea—of taking innovation out of the classic laboratory and into

Identity is probably the most embedded categorical system within Western culture. This is not something that we can get rid of in a single generation. This is a historical project. But because we’re transitioning from being a society which is organised by sexual difference, I see a rich, rapid increase of practices of de-identification that I

essa exaltação da liberdade humana corre em paralelo com a elaboração de modos de controle cada vez mais sofisticados. Sob o neoliberalismo, a coerção é internalizada, de modo que os sujeitos se autorreificam sob a égide da lógica da mercadoria.