Maxine & the Neo-Human Condition (Arendt thru Foucault to Mirowski)

[Fiona Shnapple]

When Driscoll refs Zorba the Greek (1964) we have to wonder why? It
seems a stretch. What's with all these temps/ How has the Human
Condition, Action, Labor, Work collapsed under late capitalism NYC?
And, if Arendt's claim, that we have to  think what we are doing, is
useless now, we can not locate the norms, the authorial voice, the
implied author, Pynchon in anything these characters as narrators say,
think, feel, or do. Character can't be trusted. Can fiction/art?

Though Mirowski doesn’t bring this up, the neoliberal self ends up
resembling the corporate firm as defined by Ronald Coase: an entity
articulated by a loose set of contracts, with the primary purpose of
minimizing its “transaction costs.” Like the Coasean firm, the
neoliberal subject makes a fetish of efficiency and aspires to be able
to reorient itself at a moment’s notice, to expedite the flow of
goods, though it has no ontological cohesion outside an imperative to
engage in the swirling needs of the marketplace. This is the self
under neoliberalism, an executive function carved out by the
entrepreneurial embrace of economic risk.


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