Entrepreneurial and invested human capital coexist within the same contemporary subject.
Evidence
Michel Feher, the thinker who has most extensively theorized the implications for the subject and subjectivity of the shift from productive to finance capital, appears to argue that the shift is thoroughgoing and complete. I am suggesting that both modalities are present today, that human capital on the entrepreneurial model is not dead and may cohabit in the same person with human capital on the investment model. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 466
Categorization
- XREF: Refines Feher’s ‘rated agency’ account—an important scholarly correction distinguishing Brown’s position from a leading rival theorist. — connects to: Contemporary homo oeconomicus has become financialized human capital — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 52; Neoliberal self-entrepreneurship destabilizes the fixed boundaries of personhood — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 418; Human capital extends the concept of physical capital to persons’ skills. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 67 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- The ideal neoliberal subject is a self-sufficient entrepreneurial risk-taker
#expands(0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 36 - Neoliberal self-entrepreneurship destabilizes the fixed boundaries of personhood
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 418 - Contemporary homo oeconomicus has become financialized human capital
#expands(0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 52 - Cognitive capitalism blurs the work-play divide by investing in minds and social relations
#expands(0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 366 - Human capital extends the concept of physical capital to persons’ skills.
#expands(0.70) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 67