Neoliberal welfare collapse makes self-image production the individual’s job

Evidence

A society of spectacle in which sociality transpires through eyes, it can often seem to individuals as though our work is the production of our own image, keeping up with self-manifestation while lacking most means to do so. Hypervisibility pressurizes meticulous self-manicuring, but the disassembled social—demolished public institutions, declining social welfare—makes it the individual’s job to reproduce themselves. You do you. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Hooks into the reader’s causal thesis: compressed capital circulation and dismantled social infrastructure jointly force culture into immediacy/self-display. — connects to: Neoliberalism reflated the autonomous individual to break social democratic collectivism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1944