Neoliberalism transforms the self so that crises stop being read as system failures

Evidence

The proof of the project will not come in adherence to some Identikit notion of accuracy, but rather with personal recognition of the subconscious prompts that lurk in each of our own lives, the attitudes that have grown to be the unremarkable furniture of waking life, and their possible instrumentality when it comes down to acquiescence in the neoliberal wisdom of crowds. The advent of the neoliberal way of being quite literally transforms the subject, and consequently, inhibits all tendencies to interpret the crisis as a system-wide failure of economic organization. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 302

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s disciplinary subject-formation and to the reader’s broader theoretical concern with how ideology becomes embodied rather than merely believed. — connects to: Crises recurring across eras implies neoliberalism may not cause them — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1787; Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162; Crisis commentary from 2008-10 shared one syllogism, that failure proves neoliberalism dying — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 93 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal crisis narratives redirect blame from structures onto individual psychology #expands (0.95) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 433
• Neoliberalism replaces class analysis with a cynical catechism of limitless self-transformation #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 332
• Neoliberalism induces risk-bearing then blames the victims when risk fails #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 351
• Neoliberalism transformed even the criteria for individual self-evaluation #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 747
• Neoliberalism’s ultimate ideal self is the autonomous self-made individual #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 430