@article{Winnubst_2012, title={The Queer Thing about Neoliberal Pleasure: A Foucauldian Warning}, url={https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/3889}, DOI={10.22439/fs.v0i14.3889}, abstractNote={Through a careful reading of Foucault’s 1979 lectures on neoliberalism alongside Volumes 1 and 2 of <i>The History of Sexuality</i>, I argue that scholarship on both neoliberalism and queer theory should heed Foucault’s framing of both neoliberalism and sexuality as central to biopolitics. I thus offer two correctives to these fields of scholarship: for scholarship on neoliberalism, I locate a way to address the ethical bankruptcy of neoliberalism in a manner that Marxist analyses fail to provide; for scholarship in queer theory, I warn that the longstanding embrace of non-conformity as a mode of resistance to normalization is suspiciously neoliberal. I conclude with the possibility of rehabilitating the concept of jouissance as a non-fungible limit to the enterprising rationality of neoliberalism that, if historicized and especially racialized, might offer a meaningful response to the increasing ethical collapse wrought by the neoliberalization of our lives.}, number={14}, journal={Foucault Studies}, author={Winnubst, Shannon}, year={2012}, month={Sep.}, pages={79–97} }