Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the result of the critical and political commitment of various Latin American and Spanish philosophers who share a critical approach to the global "stealth revolution" in recent decades, where neoliberalism has forced the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors voice the shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies to build new conceptions of the public and the common through mobilizing affects usually disavowed in political theory. If, in Ancient Greece, the idea of strengthening the most vulnerable and weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sanchez Madrid explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation, which are able to bring about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimation and to extend our goal of creating a radically democratic world.
Laura Quintana is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nuria Sanchez Madrid is associate professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid.
Introduction: Social Suffering and Political Agency against Neoliberal Disrepair by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sanchez Madrid Part I: Distorting the Social Contract. The Challenge of Addressing Neoliberal Cultural Politics Chapter 1: Clash of Narratives: The Neoliberal Systemic Doctrine as Cause of Second-Order Suffering by Alessandro Pinzani Chapter 2: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism: Housing Financialization, Transformations of Work and Institutional Challenges in Today's Spain by Nuria Sanchez Madrid Part II: Neoliberal Subjectivation and The Effects of Depoliticizing Psychic Suffering Chapter 3: Economics is the Continuation of Psychology by Other Means: Psychic Suffering and Neoliberalism as a Moral Economy by Vladimir Safatle Chapter 4: Neoliberalism and Psychic Suffering: The Political Potential of Discontent by Rodrigo Castro Orellana Chapter 5: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: The Perils of Modern Subjectivity in Contemporary Mexico by Zenia Yebenes Part III: Disclosing the Politics of Bodily Exploitation and Death Undergirding Neoliberal Rationality Chapter 6: Insecurity as a Form of Government: Transformations in the Sphere of Work and the Politics of Bodies in Neoliberal Societies by Pablo Lopez Alvarez Chapter 7: Making a Living, Producing a Dignified Death: Experiences of Precarity, Expectations for the Future, and Processes of Political Subjectivization by Maria Ines Fernandez Chapter 8: Governing through a Politics of Death: Neoliberalism and the Ruination of Life by Laura Quintana
