Jacques Donzelot has admitted this in a backhanded fashion: “In Anglo-Saxon countries where Neoliberalism was imposed from the start of the 80s, Foucault studies provide the means of a sophisticated critique, albeit one which is visibly lacking a capacity to propose alternatives. Does this political ambivalence in the notion of governmentality not condemn it to serving an ideological function?”

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 1954