wendy brown undoing the demos neoliberalism's stealth revolution

Is neoliberalism’s reign over international politics, once taken for granted, affirmed or thwarted by Trump’s repeated threats against democratic values and process? Others saw neoliberalism as “the deep story” behind Trump’s rise to office.

wendy brown undoing the demos neoliberalism

economy, all buttressed by watered-down, middle-class cosmopolitanism? And was not Trump, in strict contrast, the neo-fascist candidate? The self-serving autocrat who promised an anti-technocratic, economic-isolationist and xenophobic White House? Trump’s victory prompted Cornel West to speak of “the end of the neoliberal era” in the United States. interventions abroad, and to center global trade and finance capital in the U.S. Neoliberalism’s usual association with technocracy and finance seems off-base as a way of thinking about real estate mogul Donald Trump, the unsophisticated master of what Marxists call “primitive accumulation.” After all, was not Hillary Clinton neoliberalism incarnate? Did she not promise to maintain U.S. The cause of Donald Trump’s ascendency, and the resultant intensification of racism, Islamophobia, and political discord across the country, has born the names populism, white nationalism, fascism, the electoral college, white racism, and-in a growing strain of commentary-neoliberalism. Yet the identity of these commentaries’ real enemy remains unclear, and even among the left’s clarion voices consensus is hard to come by. American democracy, it seems, is all but buried (or, as researchers at The Economist delicately put it, “flawed”). They scold an inept, divided left, and fume at the masculinist, authoritarian right now empowered and validated. 296 pages.Īlmost every day since Election Day, 2016, a flood of think-pieces, editorials, and election post-mortems have sung a cacophonous and angry dirge.

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books, 2015.

Wendy brown undoing the demos neoliberalism's stealth revolution