As a subject becomes a field of enterprises, society is oriented “toward the multiplicity and differentiation of enterprises,” rather than toward the exchange of commodities. Foucault adds that multiplying “the enterprise form within the social body is what is at stake in neoliberal policy” and what makes neoliberalism much more than a set of economic policies. Rather, “it is a matter of making the market, competition, and so the enterprise, into what could be called the formative power of society.”

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 120