Abstract
This essay reflects critically on the neoliberal Chile of the last forty years. Taking Byung-Chul Han's The Burnout Society as a frame of reference, the essay offers an analysis of the recent Chilean uprising. It argues that the revolt of October 2019 expressed a deep rejection of the existing economic model, emphasizing its cultural concomitants and questioning the practices of self-exploitation imposed by neoliberal work culture. The first part of the essay develops a critical picture of the figure of the entrepreneur, an embodiment of meritocratic ideology and cornerstone of the Chilean neoliberal project. After this, the essay proposes an argument to explain the historical forces behind the uprising and the different forms of resistance expressed since. It concludes with an invitation to rethink work as such and its role in a future postneoliberal Chile.
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