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    Ideology, subjectivation, and the dialectics of the plane of immanence : prolegomena to future revolutionary theory : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2011) Casser, Joan
    The capitalist mode of production is tantamount to a mode of subjectivation. Ideological objects, discursive formations, artifactuality, disciplinary apparatuses and mnemotechnologies all contribute to the determination of subjects within the capital-relation. This thesis examines just how this is possible. Through the work of Foucault, Althusser, Marx, Derrida, Stiegler, Donati and other social theorists an account of ideology and subjectivation is developed which argues that processes of material production and processes of subjective development are not mutually exclusive. Rather the capital-relation reproduces itself dialectically through objective and subjective transformations. This study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter articulates a relationship between ideological analysis and relational sociology. The second chapter argues for the identity of the mode of production and the mode of subjectivation. The third chapter deals expressly with subjectivation in advanced capitalism. The final chapter details the dynamics between the forces and relations of subjectivation and the immanent contradictions between time, space, nature, and technology within the capitalist mode of production.
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    It’s neoliberalism, stupid’ New Zealand media and the NZME-Fairfax merger
    (Counterfutures, 2016) Phelan SP
    AT THE JAIPUR literary festival in January 2015, the writer Eleanor Catton described New Zealand as a country governed by ‘neoliberal, profit-obsessed, very shallow, very money-hungry politicians who do not care about culture’.1 The comments generated much media controversy in her homeland. Catton was denounced for her insolence, ingratitude, and even traitory. Some right-wing pundits disparaged what they saw as her politically illiterate use of the term ‘neoliberal’. Her comments triggered a local version of a reactionary discourse that regards the concept of neoliberalism as the paranoid creation of left conspiracy theorists.