Neoliberalism was only emergent in Foucault’s time, not yet hegemonic

Evidence

This last feature challenges genealogy’s aim to offer a “history of the present,” diverting it to discernment of a specter or adumbration in thought and thus contributing to something more like a history of the future. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 90

Categorization

• QUESTION: Marks the shift from genealogy’s ‘history of the present’ to something like a ‘history of the future’ — a provocative inversion worth holding onto.
• XREF: connects to: Foucault’s governmentality concept may itself be a cog in the neoliberal regime of truth — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1951; Foucault frames neoliberalism as a remaking of liberal governmentality rather than an economic break — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 87; Foucault’s account of neoliberalism missed its transnational and postnational dimensions — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 144 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Foucault’s account of neoliberalism missed its transnational and postnational dimensions #qualifies (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 144
• The political rationality framing extends Foucault beyond what he himself wrote #complicates (0.72) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 231