Franco ''Bifo'' Berardi - The Soul at Work From Alienation to Autonomy

force is legitimated as the only effective SOurce of law. Thetegime of fluctuating values coincides with the dominationcism in public discourse and in the public soul.In ordet to understand the social effects of Neoliberaltion we have to understand the psychopathogenic effectsprecariousness of social relations produces on the individualcollective soul. Beginning with the 1970s, deregulationcentral role in the ideology of power, upsetting not only thetions between the economy and society, bur also the cO(ltd'inatecritical discourse. The word deregulation is false. It looks as ifitinated in the history of anti-systemic avant-gardes tolibertarian wind into the social sphere and hetalding theevery norm and constrictive rule. In realiry, the deregulatorythat accompany the victory of monetary neo-libetalismclearing away all rules, so that only the rules of the economicnate, uncontested. The only legitimate rule is now the strictest,most violent, the most cynical, the most irrational of all the rules:law of economic jungle.In the works that Foucault devoted to the genealogy ofpower formations, the key concept was discipline, understood asmodeling of the bodies in the Fordist context. In his eatIv '"ri,rim,,,,whete he studied the fo rmation of the modern disciplinarytures-mental hospitals, clinics, prisons-Foucault built a theorymodern power that included a theory of subject formation.Now that the despotic regime of liberalist detegulation hasdeveloped itself, the discourse Foucault developed in his earlyings needs to be updated. Foucault himself tealized it, as we canin The Birth of Biopolitics, the subsequently published fotm of1979 seminar at the College de France. Here Foucault tetraces\".l'olr