Wertkörper

Zur Ökonomisierung des menschlichen Körpers im Zeichen von Globalisierung und Neoliberalismus

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  • Rüdiger Kunow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v45i178.228

Schlagworte:

Globalisierung, Neoliberalismus, Biotechnologie, Biopolitik

Abstract

Recent advances in the fields of genomics and biotechnology have greatly expanded the discretionary autonomy of human beings over their bodies. Biology has so become a new and alluring terrain for the enlightenment project of self-realization and selffulfilment. These developments have been co-evolving with the global expansion of neoliberal capitalism. This article states that there is a common logic at work in both areas, leading not only to the emergence of a global market in biological materials but also to a re-calibration of the biology of human life into lively capital. For this reason, the new „freedom“ of constructing the body according to one’s own preferences and desires in a dialectical inversion entails new obligations and constraints. In the end, only the technologically enhanced human body is fit for the neoliberal world of social cut-backs and can avoid being consigned to a new, this time biologically defined underclass.

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2015-01-01

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Kunow, R. (2015). Wertkörper: Zur Ökonomisierung des menschlichen Körpers im Zeichen von Globalisierung und Neoliberalismus. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 45(178), 51 – 66. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v45i178.228

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