Notes on postneoliberalism in Argentina

Development Dialogue

Volumn , Issue 51, 2009, Pages 181-192

  Gago, Verónica ^a   Sztulwark, Diego ^a  

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NEOLIBERALISM;

ARGENTINA;

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References (9)

1. Translators' note: We have chosen to use the expression 'de-stituent' as a translation of the Spanish word 'destituyente', which makes reference to the power that unseats a regime, in order to preserve the resonances that indicate a power opposite to that which institutes or that which is part of a constitutive process. We use the hyphen to avoid confusion with the English word 'destitute'. which carries connotations of impoverishment.
2. From the French 'gouvernementalité', a term coined by Foucauld to emphasise the close link between forms of power and processes of subjectification.
3. Colectivo Situaciones (2002), Apuntes para el nuevo protagonismo social, no. 19/20, Buenos Aires: Ediciones de mano en mano.
4. The Spanish slang word 'escrache' refers to a particular kind of demonstration often involving public shaming.
5. Members of organisations of unemployed workers whose main form of protest was the piquete, or road block.
6. See, for a fuller analysis, Colectivo Situaciones, '¿La vuelta de la politica?', www.situaciones.org
7. We use the concept of biopolitics in a broader sense and without discriminating here between the interpretations that have emerged since the work of Foucault (particularly, in current Italian political philosophy: Agamben, Espósito, Hardt and Negri, Virno, etc.). We propose instead a conceptual image that we take from López Petit and that could be useful for our purpose: the fact that capital has become indistinguishable from existence, from life itself, and that to undertake a reconquest of emancipatory activity it is impossible to think from an external space about capital and its power mechanisms. In this context, all resistance, all counter-actions are immediately political, bioresistant.
8. A different thesis is the one Negri proposes concerning the power of movements that are 'passing through at a distance' (atravesamiento con distanciamiento). See interview with Toni Negri, 'Cambio de paradigmas', by Veronica Gago, Página/12, Buenos Aires, 4 December 2007.
9. This idea of a 'neoliberalism of the left' is elborated on by Raúl Zibechi. See interview with him by M. Laura Carpinetta: 'Seguimos bajo un modelo neoliberal', Página/12, Buenos Aires, 23 September 2008.