The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Foucault and Homo Oeconomicus
"In the 1978-79 Collège de France lectures, Foucault describes a shift in homo oeconomicus from classical economic liberalism to neoliberalism wherein an image of man as a creature of needs satisfied through exchange gives way to an image of man as an entrepreneur of himself." Wendy Brown, Undoing The Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2015), 80.
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