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is not just an ideological rhetoric, a political-economic reality, nor a practical anti-humanism, but a political project that endeavors to create a social reality that it suggests already exist.

To summarize, the theoretical strength of the concept of governmentality consist of the fact that it construes neo-liberalism not just as ideological rhetoric, as a political-economic reality or as a practical anti-humanism, but above all as a political project that endeavors to create a social reality that it suggests already exist. (lemke 'foucault governmentality:13)

is a profoundly active technology of governance that rationalizes governing order to optimize. It involves the moral claim that the market is better than state at redistributing resources, and an ethical claim that assumes the individual to be, at base, competitive, possessive, and self-serving.

is a profoundly rationalizing technology of governance concerning optimization, earning, efficiency, and the creation of 'human capital'. It is when homo economicus becomes the sole interface of government and the individual.

Foucault gives a strikingly similar gloss on the neo-liberal figure of rationality par excellence: 'The surface of contact between the individual and the power exercised on him, and so the principle of the regulation of power over the individual, will be only this kind of grid of homo 'conomicus. Homo 'conomicus is the interface of government and the individual' (Foucault 2008, 252-3).

is an ideology based upon the centrality of rights to individual choice, that encourages competitive relations, and.

Herzfeld defines it as 'an ideology based upon the centrality of rights to individual choice' that encourages competitive relations and 'engenders a 'dominant model' of the past and thereby 'reifies experience'' (2009: 114, 120)

is an ideology which, by hiding behind the idea of efficiency, threatens the death of politics, replacing society with the market, separating labor from context, and obscuring inequality in structures of production.

As it is, there is a strong argument to be made that neoliberal capitalism, in its millennial moment, portends the death of politics by hiding its own ideological underpinnings in the dictates of economic efficiency: in the fetishism of the free market, in the inexorable, expanding 'needs' of business, in the imperatives of science and technology' (Comaroff 2000:322)'Neoliberalism aspires, in its ideology and practice, to intensify the abstractions inherent in capitalism itself: to separate labor power from its human context, to replace society with the market, to build a universe out of aggregated transactions' (Comaroff 2000:305). 'In short, as neoliberal conditions render ever more obscure the rooting of inequality in structures of production, (Comaroff 2000:306)

is an ideology which, rather than seeking to repair poverty and social inequalities, has as its goal to merely manage them.

Neoliberal thought is cental to modern development efforts, the goal of which is less to repair poverty and social inequalities than to manage them' (Farmer 2004:312)

is an ideology, a mode of governance, and a policy package.

(1) an ideology... (2) a mode of governance... (3) a policy package. Let us carefully unpack these fundamental dimensions. (steger 2010:11)

is concerned with human capital such that realms of life otherwise not associated with economics, are now appraised, evaluated, and modified in terms of market economy and according to an economic grid.

relies on two 'types of programming' and of governing, namely the theory of 'human capital' and 'the analysis of criminality and delinquency' (219). The two types are brought together in the sphere of economic analysis and productivity. The innovation of capital and its productivity, Foucault argues, come to be translated as investment in the human capital, to the extent that realms of life, otherwise not associated with economics, are now appraised, evaluated, and modified in terms of market economy and according to an economic grid (240). The economic form of the market functions, then, 'as a principle of decipherment of social relationships and individual behavior.' (243).

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