Freedom from domination is treated as a universal human desire

Evidence

Under neoliberalism, the technology of power takes on a subtle form. It does not lay hold of individuals directly. Instead, it ensures that individuals act on themselves so that power relations are interiorized – and then interpreted as freedom. Self-optimization and submission, freedom and exploitation, fall into one. Such engineering of freedom and exploitation, which occurs in order to effect self-exploitation, is what escaped Foucault. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 69 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The system’s celebrated freedoms function as instruments of domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 45; The ruling class’s freedom produces the necessity that enslaves everyone — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 781; Administered life appears as the good life so domination looks like freedom — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 882 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal domination works by making subjects act on themselves and call it freedom #complicates (0.79) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 69