Schizo-Economy

A New Disciplinary Field

At the end of the period of capitalist triumphalism and neoliberal ideological hegemony, must we return to the old analytical categories of Marxism and the political strategies of the twentieth-century workers’ movement, to the horizons of democratic socialism or revolutionary communism? Nothing would be more inconclusive. The capitalism of mass networks that was fully implemented in the 1990s has produced social forms that are completely irreducible to the Marxist analysis of class. The categories of the critique of political economy are now insufficient, because processes of subjectivation traverse fields that are much more complex. A new disciplinary field is starting to be delineated in the encounter between the territories of economics, semiology, and psychochemistry.