Publication details
The Erinyes Within: The Entrepreneurship Concept in Post-Industrial Society
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? This paper aims to explore the relationship between the subject and the power that controls their actions in a society of non-authority. In this world, each of us is perceived as an entrepreneur - a person who participates in the exploitation of the working class, or "self-exploitation" (Han, 2017). This does not allow us to grasp the way in which society is regulated. How the elements of biopower that exercise control over our bodies and our actions are currently manifested (Foucault, 1972). In order to reconstruct this relationship, it is necessary to understand where the power centre of authority is located and whether it can be thought of as a fragment of social power within each of us. This takes us into an analysis of subjectivity and performativity (Butler 1990, 1993). This paper analyses the ways in which we subject ourselves to metricization of our own actions. How we reinforce social structures endowed with the power of designation. In a society of total self-control, we resort to self-measurement of performance to prove our own social utility. In a world where we are aided in such self-measurement by, for example, phone apps, then becoming a slave to metrics approximates utter perfection (Mau, 2017). Although the technological revolution has brought us the possibility of non-starvation, it has become the basis for further alienation. This translates into the way we view our bodies, our sexuality, our place in society, our work, and our "careers." We become a commodity offered on the open market where we fight a fierce battle of competition (Reckwitz, 2017). As a result, this brings us closer to a society of depression and anxiety (Géryk, 2023). This paper will therefore address the reason, manner and consequences of how we think about our lives and our work in the current ideological environment of metric ideology. How seductive these considerations are not only for public officials (Supiot, 2017), for employers, but also for ourselves. How our agency and subjectivity are manifested in the case of submitting to the quantification and governance of data. The result is the creation of a comprehensive and coherent tool to describe the relationship between the human as subject, ideology and power structure, represented by the legal system. All this is a prerequisite for critically grasping the position of the human in the exploitative labour process and finding ways to break out of the universal desire for greater efficiency. |