Body-commodification freedom is recent and serves market demands, not tradition

Evidence

Who or what indeed, once we start swapping out body parts, neural transmitters, biological components, and somatic identities? This breathtaking interpretation of “freedom” has not in fact been passed down through the annals of legal or institutional tradition; rather, it has been the catalytic agent in many recent interventions to render the fleshy body better tuned to respond to the exacting demands of the marketplace. The self, inevitably, takes the hindmost. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 417

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘freedom to alienate the body’ doctrine connects to broader critiques of neoliberal self-ownership from legal scholarship on contracts and personhood. — connects to: Under capitalism consumption targets abstract value rather than bodily need — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 753; Belief in bodily self-ownership props up neoclassical economics but is itself a myth — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 415; Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 7 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Under capitalism consumption targets abstract value rather than bodily need #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 753
• Belief in bodily self-ownership props up neoclassical economics but is itself a myth #complicates (0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 415
• Within neoliberalism, one’s theory of markets determines one’s definition of freedom #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 167
• Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 7
• Market ideology functions to repress freedom rather than secure it #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 600
• Political defeat redirected communal activism into individualized body perfection #expands (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 575