The Neoliberal Gaze and the Nationalist Market: Proletarianization, the Neoliberal Nation-State, and Anti-Neoliberalism/Anti-Nationalism
摘要
This chapter places bell hooks’s oppositional gaze in dialogue with neoliberalism, such that black female spectators look at, document, and become oppositional to what this chapter presents as the neoliberal gaze and the nationalist market. While the neoliberal gaze functions as an institutionalizing gaze that imposes a neoliberal regime upon black womanhood, in kind, black womanhood, for hooks, become commodified in a nationalist market, where black womanhood is devalued, for the sake of maintaining the neoliberal nation-state of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. To this end, this chapter will discuss the proletarianization of black womanhood, through the looking dynamics of the nationalist market, where this proletarianization are political-economic conditions drawn from what this chapter will consider as the neoliberal theory of nationalist rent, or the institutionalizing effects of rentier capitalism. From the looking relations that devalue and make illegitimate black womanhood, for the purposes of valuing and legitimizing white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, black female spectators deploy an oppositional gaze from spaces of agency rooted in anti-neoliberalism and anti-nationalism.