Within or Beyond Governmentality? : Neoliberal Governmentality in Snowpiercer
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This paper is an attempt to read the film Snowpiercer as an allegory that illustrates the dystopian picture of neoliberal governmentality. Inspired by the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault on power and governmentality, this paper focuses on the economic and political implications of the film’s engagement with the present neoliberalism, and interprets the revolution that the film suggests as a subversive resistance to neoliberalism. The basic setting of the film, the polarized sections of the train, allegorizes the extreme inequality of neoliberal capitalism and neoliberal governmentality that operate to control social class-structures and to sustain the system. In the film, neoliberal power operates in three forms: the disciplinary power that manipulates the surplus labor force and the unemployed, the sovereign power that controls the protests, and the bio-politics that balances the population of society. These three dimensions of the operation of power can be integrated as neoliberal governmentality, which, on the one hand, controls the behavior of the people, and on the other, controls every relationship within society, thereby sustaining the system. Against this neoliberal governmentality, the film suggests two types of revolution. One is a Marxist resistance that aims to overthrow the governing system, but turns out to be subjugated by the neoliberal governmentality. The other opens up a new approach to resistance that presents the possibility of life outside and beyond neoliberalism, where neoliberal governmentality is escaped.
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This paper is an attempt to read the film Snowpiercer as an allegory that illustrates the dystopian picture of neoliberal governmentality. Inspired by the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault on power and governmentality, this paper focuses on the economic and political implications of the film’s engagement with the present neoliberalism, and interprets the revolution that the film suggests as a subversive resistance to neoliberalism. The basic setting of the film, the polarized sections of the train, allegorizes the extreme inequality of neoliberal capitalism and neoliberal governmentality that operate to control social class-structures and to sustain the system. In the film, neoliberal power operates in three forms: the disciplinary power that manipulates the surplus labor force and the unemployed, the sovereign power that controls the protests, and the bio-politics that balances the population of society. These three dimensions of the operation of power can be integrated as neoliberal governmentality, which, on the one hand, controls the behavior of the people, and on the other, controls every relationship within society, thereby sustaining the system. Against this neoliberal governmentality, the film suggests two types of revolution. One is a Marxist resistance that aims to overthrow the governing system, but turns out to be subjugated by the neoliberal governmentality. The other opens up a new approach to resistance that presents the possibility of life outside and beyond neoliberalism, where neoliberal governmentality is escaped.
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