ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter the focus was largely upon changes in politics that developed in the 1990s-changes that suggest this was a new period of authoritarianism, one predicated upon the development of micro-politics and the growing regulation of everyday life and behaviour. Here this argument is examined more theoretically. If the representation of the changes in politics thus far are correct to any extent, then perhaps a more profound problem is being raised-the very nature of human subjectivity in contemporary modernity.
