Neoliberalism exploits the total person, not merely working time

Evidence

Neoliberal psychopolitics is always coming up with more refined forms of exploitation. Countless self-management workshops, motivational retreats and seminars on personality or mental training promise boundless self-optimization and heightened efficiency. They are steered by neoliberal techniques of domination, which aim to capitalize not just on working time but on the person himor herself: all the attention the individual commands and, indeed, his or her very life. Neoliberalism has discovered integral human being as the object of exploitation. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 70

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Han’s broader therapeutic/self-help critique and to earlier chapters distinguishing sovereignty and discipline from achievement-society biopolitics. — connects to: Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162; Neoliberalism redefined human being itself as human capital. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 134; Neo-liberalism collapses labor into capital and frames the individual as an enterprise — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1218 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 70

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self #expands (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162
• Neoliberalism redefined human being itself as human capital. #expands (0.90) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 134
• Neo-liberalism collapses labor into capital and frames the individual as an enterprise #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1218
• Neoliberal self-entrepreneurship destabilizes the fixed boundaries of personhood #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 418
• Neoliberalism transforms the self so that crises stop being read as system failures #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 302