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Wendy Brown: We know neoliberalism has to do with dismantling the social state, deregulation, privatization, regressive taxation, and suspicion of public goods in favor of entrepreneurial, privatized, and for-profit endeavors. However, there are two other things that I want to bring into the frame.
- The Politics of Protection
Sarah Jaffe ▪ November 22, 2021 President Joe Biden...
- The Politics of Protection
Dec 3, 2019 · With her new book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Columbia 2019), Wendy Brown joins more than a few scholars now reconsidering what we thought we knew about neoliberalism.
ABSTRACT In 2019, Wendy Brown’s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism was published. In it, she analyses the way in which right-wing and demagogic forces in the US and elsewhere have performed a ‘multi-pronged assault on democratic values’. Brown argues that such anti-democratic practices were present
- Harrison Jonathon Lechley-Yuill, Ian Sinclair
- 2020
Mar 24, 2020 · To conclude our book forum on In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019), we spoke with Wendy Brown about some of the key questions raised by her four reviews.
In this fascinating book, Wendy Brown demonstrates that neoliberal rationality, more than merely economistic in spirit, also contains a reactionary moralism. The two elements dovetail in curtailing every form of equality.
Edited by Wendy Brown and Michel Feher Reckoning with the epochal nature of the turn that capitalism has taken in the last three decades, the editors of Near Futures seek to assemble a series of books that will illuminate its mani-fold implications — with regard to the production of value and
Jan 18, 2018 · Brown’s central argument is that neoliberalism—which she characterizes as a “political rationality,” both following and revising Michel Foucault—has undermined democratic forms of participation by casting the market as the model for the entirety of society.
