| Description |
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: ̀Hit Your Educable Public Right in the Supermarket Where They Live': Risk and Failure in the Work of William Gaddis / Nicky Marsh -- Atms, Teleprompters and Photobooths: a Short History of Neoliberal Optics / Mark Hayward |
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Machine generated contents note: What Kind of Thing is ̀Neoliberalism'? / Jeremy Gilbert -- ̀... We Got to Get Over Before We Go Under ...' Fragments for a History Of Black Vernacular Neoliberalism / Paul Gilroy -- Foucault's ̀Critique' of Neoliberalism: Rawls and the Genealogy of Public Reason / Paul Patton -- Meritocracy As Plutocracy: The Marketising of ̀Equality' Under Neoliberalism / Jo Littler -- Thought Bubble: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Knowledge / Neal Curtis -- Capitalist Realism and Neoliberal Hegemony: A Dialogue / Jeremy Gilbert -- Beyond the Entrepreneurial Voyeur? Sex, Porn and Cultural Politics / Stephen Maddison -- Feminism, the Family and the New ̀Mediated' Maternalism / Angela McRobbie -- Complexity as Capture - Neoliberalism and the Loop of Drive / Jodi Dean -- Neoliberal Britain's Austerity Foodscape: Home Economics, Veg Patch Capitalism and Culinary Temporality / Claire Westall -- |
| Summary |
What kind of thing is 'neoliberalism'? This collection of essays explores a range of possible answers to this question, arguing that neoliberalism is a complex, but specifiable and analysable phenomenon: a discursive formation, an ideology, a governmental programme, a hegemonic project, an assemblage of ideas, techniques and technologies, and what Deleuze and Guattari call an 'abstract machine'. Following an introductory essay by Jeremy Gilbert which contextualises the meaning and significance of neoliberalism, the collection considers the genesis, persistence and polyvalency of the concept across a range of cultural sites and discursive genres from political philosophy to pornography, from economics to photographic technology. Chapters examine the intersection of neoliberal ideology and political practice with experiences of race, gender, sexuality and class; with grand politics, technical innovation and hard economics. This book is essential reading for anyone interesting in the contemporary cultural climate, and the impact of the pervasive concept of neoliberalism on society in the present |
| Notes |
"The essays in this book were first published as new formations 80-81, Neoliberal culture"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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Culture -- Economic aspects.
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Neoliberalism -- Social aspects.
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Politics and culture.
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| Author |
Gilbert, Jeremy, 1971- editor
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| ISBN |
1910448575 |
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9781910448571 |
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