neoliberalism
(en)
the postulate that markets are organised most effectively by private enterprise and that the private pursuit of accumulation will generate the most common good; accomplished by opening international markets and financial networks, and downsizing the welfare state
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Neoliberalism – the reduction of all social life to the logic of profit-seeking behaviour – ought to have disappeared in 2008, and a form of it certainly did
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6 years, 5 months ago
Neoliberalism – the reduction of all social life to the logic of profit-seeking behaviour – ought to have disappeared in 2008, and a form of it certainly did
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6 years, 5 months ago
pecuniary
(en)
(adjective) consisting of or measured in money / (adjective) of or relating to money
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As the cultural critic Mark Fisher insightfully demonstrated, contemporary capitalism wages a psychological war as much as a pecuniary one, where melancholy is systematically induced on a mass scale to tame the revolutionary rage that marked the 1960s and 1970s apart
from Ghosts of My Life which I really need to read
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6 years, 5 months ago
As the cultural critic Mark Fisher insightfully demonstrated, contemporary capitalism wages a psychological war as much as a pecuniary one, where melancholy is systematically induced on a mass scale to tame the revolutionary rage that marked the 1960s and 1970s apart
from Ghosts of My Life which I really need to read
notable
6 years, 5 months ago
interpellation
(en)
(common Althusserian term) the process by which ideology, embodied in major social and political institutions (ideological & repressive state apparatuses), constitutes the very nature of individual subjects' identities through the process of "hailing" them in social interactions
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As the French Marxist Louis Althusser pointed out in his essay on the ideological state apparatuses, this is what makes the ‘interpellation’ process (his name for a particular kind of capitalist indoctrination) so effective
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6 years, 5 months ago
As the French Marxist Louis Althusser pointed out in his essay on the ideological state apparatuses, this is what makes the ‘interpellation’ process (his name for a particular kind of capitalist indoctrination) so effective
notable
6 years, 5 months ago
fulsome
(en)
(adjective) characterized by abundance; copious / (adjective) generous in amount, extent, or spirit / (adjective) being full and well developed / (adjective) aesthetically, morally, or generally offensive / (adjective) exceeding the bounds of good taste; overdone / (adjective) excessively complimentary or flattering; effusive
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Such a reduction of labour to a fulsome economic zero
confirm
6 years, 5 months ago
Such a reduction of labour to a fulsome economic zero
confirm
6 years, 5 months ago