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The Pleasure Principle Meets the Performance Principle: Gary Numan, Marcuse, and Neoliberalism

August 21, 2012 · by Robin James · in alienation, gary numan, hipness, intensity, marcuse, neoliberalism, performance principle, pleasure principle, race, whiteness

So I think Gary Numan’s work—I’m thinking Tubeway Army & Pleasure Principle stuff—is a really helpful example of the ways neoliberalism and “global/info” capital reworks the structuring binaries of classical liberalism and commodity capitalism. Binaries like public/private, authentic/alienated, use/exchange—these all…

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