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NEOLIBERALISM, BIODISCIPLINE, AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE
Author(s) -
Wilkerson William
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2010.00021.x
Subject(s) - biopower , neoliberalism (international relations) , criticism , sociology , relation (database) , epistemology , michel foucault , aesthetics , politics , social science , philosophy , political science , law , database , computer science
My response to Ladelle McWhorter's essay covers two main points. First, I argue that Foucault fleshed out the relation between biopower and neoliberalism more fully than McWhorter claims and that this enables us to take McWhorter's analysis further than she does. Second, even though this Foucault‐inspired analysis is revealing, a full criticism of reprogenetic technologies requires us to attend to racial and sexual dimensions of social experience and domination that may not be captured simply by following Foucault.