On the verge of a nervous breakthrough: Neoliberal subjectivities and precarious resistance in the contemporary South African university by Desmond Painter, Liezl Dick

“…The neoliberal machine hence operates with and through precarity (Pérez & Montoya, 2018), creating non-relational subjectivities always on the verge of a collective nervous-breakdown. Against this background we argue that the task of critical theory today is to think beyond diagnostic terms, towards possible forms of resistance that don’t only exist outside of the neoliberal context, but that are made possible by the neoliberal ethos itself. …”
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