NEOLIBERALISM AND MACHINIC ENSLAVEMENT CYBERNETIC GOVERNMENTALITY

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism as a form of governmentality and Deleuze Postscript on societies of control. It begins with the issue of the entrepreneur of the self and his machinic character. Then, it suggests the figure of Man-Machine of Discipline and Punish as a key to historical intelligibility which coincides with the Deleuzian history of machines. Finally, from that relationship and the notion of machinic enslavement the paper aims to understand the entrepreneur of the self as an informatic machine and the current technologies of power in terms of cybernetics governmentality.