Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of...

In this paper, I consider Michel Foucault's work on liberal capitalism at the end of the 1970s, most often discussed under the heading 'governmentality,' as a critique of political economy in Marx's sense, though based on very different and in some ways much more radical premises. Insofar as...