Mutant Neoliberalism – LPE Project

Mutant Neoliberalism and the Politics of Culture

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:00:12 +0000

This post is part of our symposium on Mutant Neoliberalism. You can find the full symposium here. *** As other contributors to this symposium have noted, Mutant Neoliberalism effectively illustrates that neoliberalism cannot be reduced to neoclassical economics or the Washington Consensus, but instead must be understood as a constantly mutating cultural and political formation. What I want to...

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Nationalism and Neoliberal Governance

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:01:00 +0000

This post is part of our symposium on Mutant Neoliberalism. You can find the full symposium here. *** In my 2014 book The Limits of Neoliberalism, I offered a largely Weberian account of how the principle of competition provides the metaphysical ideas on which the authority of the neoliberal state depends. Crucially, I suggested, competition doesn’t just offer a single idea...

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Mutant Neoliberalism, Originary Violence, and Feminist Revolts in Latin America

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 07:07:48 +0000

This post is part of our symposium on Mutant Neoliberalism. You can find the full symposium here. *** In an interview, Michel Foucault said that when “actually existing” socialism was put in scare quotes, as if it were not exactly “real,” the only thing the scare quotes revealed was the strength of an abstract ideal that theorists invariably used as a measuring stick to evaluate...

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The Bourgeois Internationale, Part II

Kate Redburn — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 07:00:44 +0000

This post is Part II of David Grewal’s response to Mutant Neoliberalism, Part I is available here. You can find the full symposium here. *** As I noted in my first post, it is possible that the COVID-19 pandemic will force a reckoning with the democratic deficit in the European Union and prompt a renewal of left-wing politics across the continent. However, the existing constitutional machinery of...

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Up or Out: Migration and Rated Governance

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:00:14 +0000

Ken Loach’s 2016 film I Am Daniel Blake (2016) depicts post-crash austerity in all of its bleak barbarity. The plot revolves around the film’s protagonist, a middle-aged carpenter, who attempts to navigate the British welfare system after a heart attack makes it hard for him to work. The message the system sends to our unlucky hero is that he is not worthy: of the state’s resources, of an employer’s goodwill, of anyone’s sympathy, of his own basic humanity. On Michel Feher’s assessment, we might add another shortcoming: he isn’t creditworthy, either.

The Bourgeois Internationale, Part I

Kate Redburn — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:19:32 +0000

This post is part of our symposium on Mutant Neoliberalism. The second part of this post is available here, and you can find the full symposium here. *** Mutant Neoliberalism is an excellent collection of essays canvassing what editors William Callison and Zachary Manfredi rightly diagnose as the changing face of neoliberalism – really, the multiplicity of national, transnational and post-national...

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Dead Again? Mutant Neoliberalism and Crisis Reinvention

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:00:34 +0000

Will the rise of new political forces and the explosion of global crises sound neoliberalism’s death knell? Or will ostensible challenges to existing political and economic orders instead catalyze new mutations in neoliberalism’s dynamic development? Mutant Neoliberalism, a recent edited collection, brings together leading scholars of neoliberalism—political theorists, historians, philosophers...

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