"Foucault wanted to strip the state of its power to determine the meaning of its citizens"

Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal https://t.co/BSwu0qwNpD　後期は新自由主義的だから駄目、前期は左翼的だからいいというのは単純過ぎないか

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In this view, a government given too much power by its citizens would invariably lead to totalitarianism. Socialism was viewed as “crypto-totalitarian.” For Foucault, such regimes didn’t merely control their populace, they defined them. Just as he advocated for Roland Barthes’ “death of the author” in interpreting texts, Foucault wanted to strip the state of its power to determine the meaning of its citizens. 

His LSD trip reinforced his opposition to the “hermeneutics of the self,” i.e., interpreting the self as if there were some fundamental and fixed truth of one’s identity.

Neoliberalism quickly transformed from a set of economic practices that promote individual freedom into what the writer George Monbiot describes as “a self-serving racket,” enriching the wealthy and codifying systemic inequality.

　政治権力は政治権力によって市民の自己を規定する。社会主義は隠れ全体主義であり、フーコーは政治権力によって自己を規定されたくはなかった。自己が分解解放されるLSD体験によってますますそう思い始めて、自由を強調するネオリベにはしった・・・・みたいな感じなのかなあ。

　ネオリベは政治権力と企業が癒着して、自由化と称して企業が儲けるシステムだから、左派からは当然人気がない。

　この点、むしろ、無政府主義に近いリバタリアンとフーコーの関係はどうだったのかなあ。ノージック　あたりと接触はなかったのかなあ。