Book Discussion: The Making of the Indebted Man by Maurizio Lazzarato

Join us for a discussion of Maurizio Lazzarato’s The Making of the Indebted Man, a provocative examination of how debt has become a central mechanism of control in neoliberal societies. Drawing from Nietzsche, Foucault, Marx, and Deleuze, Lazzarato traces the moral and political genealogy of debt, revealing how it produces not just economic obligation but subjectivities—obedient, guilty, and endlessly accountable.
Written in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the book explores how debt functions as a tool of power that shapes our relationships, labor, and sense of self. We’ll unpack its relevance to contemporary struggles over student loans, austerity, gig work, and social welfare, while critically engaging with Lazzarato’s call to resist the normalization of indebted life.

The link for the book, you can find here: https://monoskop.org/images/6/62/Lazzarato_Maurizio_The_Making_of_the_Indebted_Man_An_Essay_on_the_Neoliberal_Condition_2012.pdf

📍 Café Joli (Musée Carnavalet): 16 rue des francs Bourgeois, 75004, Paris
🗓 14 August
🕡 18:30