El 'empresario de sí mismo': El olvido de Antonio Negri

Abstract

Antonio Negri is an expert on the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. His dialogue with Foucault and French post-structuralism is broad and sustained. However, Negri made a significant omission regarding the 'entrepreneur of himself', a figure introduced in The Birth of Biopolitics. This article seeks to problematize what Antonio Negri missed. Our hypothesis is that the reason for the omission can be found in the 'ontology of doing' that traverses the work of Negri. Addressing this absence is not an end in itself. We are interested in both the 'entrepreneur of himself' as a fundamental figure through which we understand the processes of subjectivisation inherent to neoliberalism as well as the way in which the figure embodies the temporality of neoliberalism's logic of exploitation. This is not about the capturing of past antagonistic struggles, as Negri proposes, but rather the objectification of future time in the present in order to dispose of it in advance.