Spectralization of Feminism and the new Spirit of Capitalism
by Marianna Esposito
pp. 28-44 Issue 8 (4,2) – July-December 2017 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: 10.17450/170202
Abstract
The essay analyses the affirmative link mobilized both by feminist thinking and by neoliberal rationality in relation to a heterogeneous statute of the irreducible subject to the legal one founded by the modern paradigm. In both cases, the exercise of freedom is outlined, in fact, as the experience of a desiring subjectivity that rejects the dynamics of transcendence in the sacrificial logic of the sovereign One and rejects the instances of symbolization imposed by the patriarchal order in the name of its own singular difference. At this height is the gap and, at the same time, the interest of the confrontation between the political instances of feminism and those self-entrepreneurial of neoliberalism: it’s there where it is based the gap between the symbolic cut of the sexual difference and the creative instance of differences captured by the market, between the relational matrix of feminist freedom and the individualizing push to self-performance.