Status Updates From Friendship in an Age of Eco...

Because of space limits I'm going to briefly sketch what I take deep/true friendships to be thus far:

1. Involve a mutual trust
2. Involve a shared history
3. Involve an interest in the person as a whole, not their individual characteristics
4. Involve an ability to share amongst each other regarding deep and meaningful aspects of one's life as well as challenge or support each other regarding these things

Chapter four mostly focuses on his characterizations of different kinds of friendships - ones that bring pleasure, further our projects or are true. The first is related to the figure of the consumer, the second the figure of the entrepreneur and the last unrelated to either.

True friendships are characterized by a couple things - trust, a shared history, insensitivity to change and acknowledgement of these things

In chapter three, May uses the concept of figures from Foucault to attempt to define the figures of neoliberalism - the consumer and the entrepreneur. The consumer is a atomized person focused only on what brings gratification now. The entrepreneur in the atomized person focused only on what will bring the biggest return on their present investment (and seemingly thinks of relationships in this way.