Neoliberalism, Subjectivation Processes and Socio-technical Mutations. Considerations from a Case Study

• Main Author: Susana Rita Presta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2020-08-01
• Series: Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: neoliberalism; emerging technologies; subjectivation processes; entrepreneurial subject.
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/39705/pdf

The gradual advance of digital manufacturing technologies in relation to the mutations of capitalism, both in productive and extra-productive spheres, generates new questions regarding the place of human work and its meanings in the neoliberal civilizing project. Our purpose is to research the deep displacement of the working subject towards the entrepreneurial subject in relation to neoliberal government goals that aim to reconfigure both values and feelings as the experience of time and space in relation to the senses of work and everyday life. Our considerations will be related to the field work carried out on the project of a Non-Governmental Organization that promotes training spaces in applied robotics and construction of 3D printers, the associative organization and entrepreneurship in different communities in the neighborhoods and settlements of the southern zone from the City of Buenos Aires.