In a rhetorically structured field in which there is only speech and its endangerment by government and in which the unimpeded flow of speech benefits all, while government intervention invariably targets and discriminates, significant differences among speakers disappear. Whether the speaker is a homeless woman or Exxon, speech is speech, just as capital is capital. This disavowal of stratification and power differentials in the field of analysis and action is a crucial feature of neoliberal rationality, precisely the feature that discursively erases distinctions between capital and labor, owners and producers, landlord and tenant, rich and poor.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 323