Beyond the object. (Re)thinking art in neoliberalism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Yet creative thinking may potentially produce politics, and art. Not objectively defined, but Intersubjectively signified by linguistic communication, creative ...
Foucault's lectures on the emergence of neoliberal governmentality have been an influential source on the study of neoliberalism today. I argue that Foucault's approaches, however, also possesses some limits. It does not address why governmental rationalities display historical continuities, the mutual affinity between neoliberalism and Christian forms of thought, and how neoliberal regimes exclude surplus populations. I turn to Agamben's ...
The dissertation of Marjan De Coster ties into contemporary questions of precarization of the labour force and forms of resistance under neoliberal governance. More precisely, she draws on the work of Judith Butler to theorize through a performative lens how 1) unlivable lives are constituted under neoliberal governance, seeking to understand the mechanisms through which some become precarized, and 2) how resistance can(not) emerge, under ...
In her influential article on “Cultural Entrepreneurialism: On the changing Relationship between the Arts, Culture and Employment” (2003), Andrea Ellmeier observes that in the post-Fordist work regime, artists, along with all creative workers, have become entrepreneurial individuals who work anywhere and anytime in exchange for low wages or immaterial income. In that context, Isabell Lorey introduces the idea that precarization can be defined ...
Africa is increasingly perceived as the site of an unprecedented digital revolution, alternately described as either propelling the continent into a new era of growth and prosperity or drawing it into new frontiers of exploitation and neo-colonial domination. Bringing into conversation and contributing to recent debates in economic anthropology on sharing and redistribution with the emerging scholarship in African digital anthropology on ...