The ideal neoliberal worker is nomadic, flexible, and anti-hierarchical.
Evidence
Being smart means being dynamic and nomadic, and against centralized bureaucracy; believing in dialogue and cooperation as against central authority; in flexibility as against routine; culture and knowledge as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and autopoiesis as against fixed hierarchy. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 60
Categorization
- DEFINE: Sharply encapsulates what ‘being smart’ means in contemporary managerial ideology.
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism exploits the total person, not merely working time — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 70; Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162; Neoliberalism has a constant end but flexible, adaptive means. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 22 (+7 more)
Related
- Neoliberalism succeeded by capturing workers’ desire to escape Fordist strictures (similarity 0.81)
- Neoliberalism exploits the total person, not merely working time (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism exploits the total person, not merely working time
#expands(0.85) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 70 - Neo-liberal capitalism decentralizes authority yet intensifies domination.
#qualifies(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 141 - Neoliberalism governs people by getting them to self-regulate toward economic ideals.
#expands(0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 38 - Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162 - Neoliberalism succeeded by capturing workers’ desire to escape Fordist strictures
#expands(0.80) - Neoliberalism’s ultimate ideal self is the autonomous self-made individual
#qualifies(0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 430 - Neoliberalism redefined human being itself as human capital.
#expands(0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 134 - Neoliberalism is activated from below by social actors, not merely imposed from above
#expands(0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 530 - Neoliberalism has a constant end but flexible, adaptive means.
#expands(0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 22 - Neoliberalism succeeded by seducing workers out of class identification.
#expands(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1649