Spheres of Insurrection: Notes on Decolonizing the Unconscious Rolnik Suely
As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it brings into being a new kind of micropolitics, one that involves the appropriation - what Suely Rolnik calls…
Specifikacia Spheres of Insurrection: Notes on Decolonizing the Unconscious Rolnik Suely
As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it brings into being a new kind of micropolitics, one that involves the appropriation - what Suely Rolnik calls the 'pimping' - of life itself, as it turns the life drive away from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening, destructive, homogenizing practices necessary for the extractive purposes of capitalist accumulation. This dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime.Drawing on examples from across the Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic subject in