ABSTRACT

Self-care, self-improvement and biopower, as they relate to the commodification of adolescence and the grooming of young people as neoliberal citizens, are the central concerns of this article. Foregrounding new perspectives on the effects such trends have on the body [Cusset, F. (2018). How the world swung to the right: Fifty years of counterrevolutions. MIT Press], it analyzes two texts, the film Eighth Grade and the Atlanta episode entitled ‘Fubu’ (season 2, episode 10), to consider how neoliberal capitalist values manifest in the lives of protagonists, Kayla and Earn, whose young bodies have been colonized by the self-care, self-improvement ethos of our current cultural spirit.

摘要

自我保健，自我完善和生物动力与青春期商品化和年轻人作为新自由主义公民的培养有关，是本文的重点。展望这种趋势对身体的影响的新观点[Cusset，F.（2018）。世界如何向右摇摆：五十年的反革命。麻省理工学院出版社]，它分析了电影《八年级》和亚特兰大的一集名为“富布”（第2季，第10集）的文本，以考虑新自由主义资本主义价值观如何在主角凯拉和厄恩的生活中体现出来，而凯尔和厄恩的年轻身体被我们当前文化精神的自我照顾，自我完善的精神所殖民。