The Making of the Indebted Man: Volume 13: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition

Synopsis

A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist "new economy" through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation. "the debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, working and non-working populations, between retirees and welfare recipients. They are all 'debtors, ' guilty and responsible in the eyes of capital, which has become the great, the universal, creditor.