MARIO ANTUNES MARINO

Michel Foucault's critique of neoliberalism indicates an aporia, as he states that there is a lack of alternative governmentality to liberalism. In recent decades, the concept of common has presented itself as a response to the aporia. To its theorists, liberal thought, tied to the paradigm of private property, has proven incapable of facing issues such as the inhibition of political imagination and neoliberalism, which presents itself as a political project in its entirety, is not democratic, but authoritarian. In this context, works such as Common Welfare, by Hardt and Negri, and Common, by Dardot and Laval, seek to respond to the field of problematization opened by the new regime of alter-world social struggles that emerged at the turn of the millennium. By taking material wealth and, above all, immaterial human elements as a starting point, they criticize capitalist governmentality and propose a project of radical democracy based on the production and institutionalization of the common. We study the notion of common, as well as to present it as an alternative governmentality to neoliberalism.