Cette référence qu’Isabelle Arseneau me signale, et va dans le même sens que les préoccupations dont mes derniers posts font état : Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: the Case against the Professional Managerial Class (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). L’auteure se place à l’Université de Californie, Irvine, dans le domaine des Film et Media Studies (https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5274). Elle précise par ailleurs dans sa courte biographie, non sans humour : « She tweets at @bureaucatliu and her views do not reflect those of her employer »… Concernant Virtue Hoarders : « A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits. »
