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

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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