Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal Societies
Understanding capitalism as a system that inherently triggers extinction, this article portrays how the self and its character have been modified within neoliberalism to a point in which it has lost its subjectivity and it is bound to the laws and logic of capitalism. By looking at necropolitics...
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Understanding capitalism as a system that inherently triggers extinction, this article portrays how the self and its character have been modified within neoliberalism to a point in which it has lost its subjectivity and it is bound to the laws and logic of capitalism. By looking at necropolitics and psychopolitics from a critical neo-Marxist lens, this article puts external biopolitics at stake while connecting them with different ways capitalism has to alienate subjects that are victims and, at the same time, vassals of this extinctive ideology. In addition, this theoretical framework will be analysed in a more tangible way by close-reading some sections of Black Mirror’s episode “Nosedive” as an example of a dystopia that is not that far away from our reality, where value and morality depend on the superficial image and extreme individuality of the subjects that belong to and perpetuate the ideology and dynamics of internal control, extinguishing their own existence as subjects. Finally, this article interrogates present times attempting to understand whether we are living in the Necrocene, the age of extinction due to capitalist logic, and whether this extinction of the self and its subjectivity might be symptoms of it.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e68790250cd7458eb13a0a88f128ecb12023-12-01T15:28:35ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariAnnali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale2385-30422023-12-0159210.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/02/009journal_article_11220Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal SocietiesBatalla, Oriol0University of Barcelona, Spain Understanding capitalism as a system that inherently triggers extinction, this article portrays how the self and its character have been modified within neoliberalism to a point in which it has lost its subjectivity and it is bound to the laws and logic of capitalism. By looking at necropolitics and psychopolitics from a critical neo-Marxist lens, this article puts external biopolitics at stake while connecting them with different ways capitalism has to alienate subjects that are victims and, at the same time, vassals of this extinctive ideology. In addition, this theoretical framework will be analysed in a more tangible way by close-reading some sections of Black Mirror’s episode “Nosedive” as an example of a dystopia that is not that far away from our reality, where value and morality depend on the superficial image and extreme individuality of the subjects that belong to and perpetuate the ideology and dynamics of internal control, extinguishing their own existence as subjects. Finally, this article interrogates present times attempting to understand whether we are living in the Necrocene, the age of extinction due to capitalist logic, and whether this extinction of the self and its subjectivity might be symptoms of it. http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/02/009Critical theory. Cultural analysis. Extinction studies. Necrocene. Necropolitics. Neo-Marxism. Neoliberalism. Psychopolitics |
| spellingShingle | Batalla, Oriol Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal Societies Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale Critical theory. Cultural analysis. Extinction studies. Necrocene. Necropolitics. Neo-Marxism. Neoliberalism. Psychopolitics |
| title | Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal Societies |
| title_full | Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal Societies |
| title_fullStr | Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal Societies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal Societies |
| title_short | Invisible Extinction: Fragility and the Extinction of the Self in Neoliberal Societies |
| title_sort | invisible extinction fragility and the extinction of the self in neoliberal societies |
| topic | Critical theory. Cultural analysis. Extinction studies. Necrocene. Necropolitics. Neo-Marxism. Neoliberalism. Psychopolitics |
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