
How Michel Foucault Got Neoliberalism So Wrong
In the emerging neoliberalism of the 1970s, Michel Foucault saw the promise of a new social order, more open to individual autonomy and experimental ways of living. That’s not how things turned out.
Kévin Boucaud-Victoire is the cofounder of the magazine Le Comptoir and the author of a recent book on Michéa, Mystère Michéa: Portrait d’un anarchiste conservateur, published in France by L’Escargot.
In the emerging neoliberalism of the 1970s, Michel Foucault saw the promise of a new social order, more open to individual autonomy and experimental ways of living. That’s not how things turned out.