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Undifferentiation by difference: implications of neoliberal governmentality for sociological theory

Abstract

We seek to make a reading of the concept of neoliberal governmentality and its resonances in concepts such as society of control and new spirit of capitalism, as a specific modulation of the critique to the statement of the autonomization of social spheres. Unlike a critique of this statement that points to a process of undifferentiation by identity , carried out by the dominance of instrumental rationality, we perceive, from the Birth of Biopolitics , a diagnosis of the contemporary as perpassed by a dynamic of undifferentiation by difference , operated by practices and discourses that induce an increasing differentiation of the subjects, but framed under the model of the entrepreneur of the self and human capital.

Autonomization; Undifferentiation; Neoliberal governmentality; Entrepreneur of the self; Human capital

Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315, 05508-010, São Paulo - SP, Brasil - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
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