Elsewhere, Lemke argues how a Foucaultian
perspective permits a view of neo-liberalism
not as
the end but a transformation of politics that
restructures the power relations in society.
What we observe today is not a diminishment
or reduction of state sovereignty and
planning capacities, but a displacement
from formal to informal techniques of
government and the appearance of new
actors on the scene of government (e.g.
NGOs), that indicate fundamental transformations
in statehood and a renewed
relation between state and civil society
actors (Lemke, 2002, p. 50