A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Conceptualizing new modes of state governmentality – power, violence and the ontological mono-politics of neoliberalism
Subtitle: power, violence and the ontological mono-politics of neoliberalism
Authors: Joronen Mikko
Publication year: 2013
Journal: Geopolitics
Number in series: 2
Volume: 18
Issue: 2
First page : 356
Last page: 370
Number of pages: 15
ISSN: 1465-0045
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2012.723289
Web address : http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14650045.2012.723289
Abstract
This paper explores the ontological constitution of the neoliberal state. By enriching Michel Foucault’s work on neoliberal governmentality with Heideggerian reading of the ontological conditions involved in the process, the paper argues for an understanding of neoliberalism as a mono-political process of ‘enframing’, through which things and human capabilities are revealed as an array of ‘reserves’ set available for the market rational utilization. It is argued that the neoliberal state is not based on the ideological or discursive turn in political practices, but on the extending drive, through which the real itself, including the ethical constitution of human conducts, natural entities, and life (with its possibilities), is ontologically positioned to serve the interests of profit-making. The paper concludes by showing how the neoliberal state and the economization of everyday life are fundamentally based on the ontological violence of concealing the openness of being, and thus, the possibility for ontological politics.
This paper explores the ontological constitution of the neoliberal state. By enriching Michel Foucault’s work on neoliberal governmentality with Heideggerian reading of the ontological conditions involved in the process, the paper argues for an understanding of neoliberalism as a mono-political process of ‘enframing’, through which things and human capabilities are revealed as an array of ‘reserves’ set available for the market rational utilization. It is argued that the neoliberal state is not based on the ideological or discursive turn in political practices, but on the extending drive, through which the real itself, including the ethical constitution of human conducts, natural entities, and life (with its possibilities), is ontologically positioned to serve the interests of profit-making. The paper concludes by showing how the neoliberal state and the economization of everyday life are fundamentally based on the ontological violence of concealing the openness of being, and thus, the possibility for ontological politics.
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