ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book investigates the rise of a neoliberal affective regime that governs people’s bodies and minds. It traces the transformation processes in major economic, political, and social spheres. The book is concerned with the processes of neoliberal governmentality based on new forms of subjectivation. It aims to define neoliberalism as a process of transgressing boundaries: between economy and state, between production and reproduction or the public and private sphere, and between the personal and the political. Deregulation of public services, like in many other European countries, led to the corporatisation of former state bureaucracies, to the marketisation and commodification of administrative work with a focus on efficiency, competition, and self-responsibility – work that became standardised through techniques of New Public Management.
