Mass identifications and mythical violence: Neoliberal mechanisms of subjectivation in the crisis interregnum
In: Journal of language and politics, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 155-175
ISSN: 1569-9862
Abstract
Whoever intends to answer the question about how collective identities are articulated today in capitalist
societies cannot ignore the task of conceptually and empirically articulating two differentiated issues: on the one hand, the
anomic situations of disintegration, in which the individualizing logic of neoliberal ideology takes center stage; on the other,
the emergence of new phenomena of social authoritarianism in different strata where the psycho-affective dynamics of community
identifications become especially relevant. In this article I will analyze the mechanisms of communitarian subjectivation deployed
by neoliberalism in the time of its crisis. For this purpose, I examine some oral narratives extracted from a qualitative study of
Argentine society, in which the interlocutors thread hypotheses about issues of public significance such as social inequality, the
role of the State in our crisis context and the rights of immigrants.