Neo-liberalism collapses labor into capital and frames the individual as an enterprise

Evidence

All the problems of [inheritance?]-transmission-education-training-inequality of level, treated from a single point ofview as homogenizable elements, themselves in their [tum?] refocused no longer around an anthropology or an ethics or a politics of labor, but around an economics (Jf capital. And the individual considered as an enterprise, i.e., as an investment/ investor ( … ). His conditions oflife are the income of a capital.” — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1218

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the key neoliberal move: the individual as enterprise, an investor whose life conditions are capital income.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism abolishes classes, the individual, and Lockean property in one move — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 164; Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162; Neoclassical agent theory collapsed when selves became infinitely plastic. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 327 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism redefined human being itself as human capital. #expands (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 134
• Neoliberalism swallows humanity through its form of valuation itself #corroborates (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 75
• Neoliberal reason legitimates casting off labor that fails to aid macroeconomic growth. #expands (0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 167