Keywords
work
governmentality
flexible enterprise
Foucault
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Abstract
We discuss the contributions of the analytics of governmentality developed by Foucault to critically examine transformations in work and in labor subjectivities in Latin America, in the context of flexible capitalism. The way the flexible enterprise and neomanagerial discourse can be conceptualized as a government apparatus, in which particular games of truth, power relations and ways of subjectivation are intertwined, is discussed. We present 4 traits of government racionality of the flexible enterprise - Human capital, incorporating social life and subjectivity in the production process, postdisciplinary control technologies, new ideal of flexible worker- highlighting ways of labor subjectivation that promote and their affinities with the logic of neoliberal governmentality.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.