Ante-Contreras, Daniel Michael
UC Riverside Online Thesis
Autism as Metaphor: The Affective Regime of Neoliberal Masculinity
•Author(s): Ante-Contreras, Daniel Michael
•Advisor(s): Vint, Sherryl
•Harris, Keith M
thesis download, 280 pages
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Rodger offers an example of how the violence of neoliberalism can be explored through the type of disabled masculinity operating in a world of intense economic logics. Rodger’s autobiography focuses heavily on his anger at women for not liking him, a reflection of toxic masculinity, while he attempts to decenter his own emotional and physical shortcomings, and inability to become rich, by continuously playing the lottery. He puts his faith in his identity as an economic subject of invisible numerical logics, creating a quintessential narrative of neoliberal masculinity.
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