Subject localization devices and their consequences for education

Abstract

This article is a diagnosis of the present regarding the ethical configuration of the subject promoted by neoliberalism and its consequences for education. To this end, it is based methodologically on Foucault's analytical guideline: knowledge, power (conceived as government) and subjectivation. It is conclude that: (1) It has moved from disciplinary societies to open-field control societies that have a neo-panoptic nature; (2) in them the subjects are governed by subject-location devices. (3) neoliberalism seeks to destroy the eventful nature of living and to govern us based on the-same; (4) the business model is assumed as contemporary êthos; (5) the subject is governed by the promise of total freedom and the unlimitedness of desire and performance and (6) we conclude how the neoliberal colonization of education contributes to the construction of this self-governed, self-regulated, self-exploited (productive), hyperactive and consumerist (desire, pleasure) neosubject.