“Academia is a serious place, and it takes itself seriously. But it is also, like Hollywood or Washington, profoundly ridiculous … (and) can only really be understood through satire.” - A.O. Scott in New York Times Book Review (Feb 25, 2024). Here is a link to some Swiftean Advice for those who aspire to move up into academic administration (now termed 'executive leadership'
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison, 2024
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of our time. It shapes us in countless ways, yet most of us struggle to articulate what it is. Worse, we have been persuaded to accept this extreme creed as a kind of natural law. In Invisible Doctrine, journalist George Monbiot and filmmaker Peter Hutchison shatter this myth.
(Some) ignorant leftbros: "Class first! No idpol!"
Scholars of right wing politics/economics: "All these right-wing thinkers are much more comfortable thinking about the blurred lines between sexual and economic politics than many thinkers on the left. And they understand that Keynesianism rests on a certain kind of sexual contract. Any challenge to this order—whether it be an escalation of wage or benefit claims, or the flight from sexual normativity, or unmarried women claiming welfare benefits—disrupts the fiscal and monetary calculus on which Keynesianism rests."
Above remark from "The Extravagances of Neoliberalism", an interview of Melinda Cooper (author of "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance") by Benjamin Kunkel, in The Baffler.
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education by Henry A. Giroux, 2014
An accessible examination of neoliberalism and its effects on higher education and America, by the author of American Nightmare .
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.
Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader ed. by Alfredo Saad-Filho & Deborah Johnston
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology shaping our world today. It dictates the policies of governments, and shapes the actions of key institutions such as the WTO, IMF, World Bank and European Central Bank. Its political and economic implications can hardly be overstated.
Neoliberal Hegemony: A Global Critique by Dieter Plehwe & Bernhard Walpen & Gisela Neunhöffer
Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces critical of it continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe. How can we make sense of this paradox? Who actually are "the neoliberals"?
To park in a disabled space on campus as a member of the UC Davis disability community, you have to first pay for doctor's appts to prove to abled people that you have a disability that affects your mobility & pay for & get issued a disabled license or placard. Then you have to pay for new doctor's appts if they're not recent enough to satisfy UC Davis TAPs & fill out more forms.
What do you have to do if you're an abled construction corp employee? Just park there & set up camp.
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West by Wendy Brown
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring?
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence by Kristin Bumiller
In an Abusive State puts forth a powerful argument: that the feminist campaign to stop sexual violence has entered into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state.
Here's a podcast on New Books Network where I talk about (surprise surprise) my new book, 'Visions of a Digital Nation', and why Margaret Thatcher's 1984 #privatisation of British Telecom was a pivotal moment for both #neoliberalism and #digitalisation.
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares.
Empire in the Age of Globalisation: US Hegemony and Neo-Liberal Disorder by Ray Kiely
This book examines the relationship between US hegemony and contemporary globalisation. Kiely reveals the weaknesses of globalisation theory, and argues that we can only approach a proper understanding of the contemporary world order by linking globalisation to debates on capitalism, imperialism, neo-liberalism and universal human rights.
Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed
With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life-from schooling to health care to old age.
This book brings together in one volume contributions made to the public debate that has developed around the Kilburn Manifesto, a Soundings project that seeks to map the political, economic, social and cultural contours of neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.
David Harvey has been a key figure in misleading the world on the nature of #neoliberalism
He portrays history of neoliberalism in a period where neoliberal transformation has completed, not begun. State powers have already been transferred to capital's institutions and away from governments. Puppets portray it as a choice in politics
My first sole-authored book just came out! Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications is about the privatisation and digitalisation of the UK's telecom infrastructure, and why that was such a pivotal moment for the rise of neoliberalism.
A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.
Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century?