“Neoliberal Reason” proposes thinking about neoliberalism not as a homogeneous and compact doctrine but as a complex technology of governance. This implies focusing on the multiple levels at which it operates, the variety of mechanisms and knowledge it involves, and the ways in which it combines and articulates, unevenly, with other forms of knowledge and practices.

Practices “from below” (the fairs, the textile workshops, the shantytowns), for their part, bring about a pluralization of neoliberalism that reveals its articulation with community forms, with popular tactics for navigating life, with initiatives that fuel informal networks, and with methods of negotiating rights that draw on this social vitality.

It is in this pluralization that the modes of resistance to a mode of government that has shown itself to be extremely versatile also appear, and where, above all, the heterogeneous, contingent and ambiguous ways in which obedience and autonomy dispute, inch by inch, the interpretation and appropriation of neoliberal conditions are revealed.