My recent book Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness, which is published as part of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) Series with Goldsmiths Press, is an attempt to articulate a particular form of existential entrapment within contemporary capitalism. I [...]
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ARTS AND CULTURAL POLICY is in a deep crisis in Australia. And it’s not just because of the pandemic or years of cuts. The fundamental basis of this crisis is generally accepted and is not of the arts and cultural sector’s making. For decades governments have imposed a logic of market [...]
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The ascendency of Prime minister Kishida and his new focus on economic inequality has many wondering whether Japan has reached the final death knell of ‘economic reform’ – a euphemism for the kind of neoliberal policies that may be able to make a dent in the government’s enormous debt. [...]
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The Iranian theocratic state for long has been conceptualised as an ‘exceptional’ entity. Two sets of theorisation have hugely contributed to this understanding. Because the 1979 revolution is mostly interpreted as an ‘exceptional’ revolution that can’t be grasped through classical social [...]
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I suppose that many people throughout the world were, whether they realized it at the time or not, Fukuyamaists in roughly the first decade following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. During this period, it really did seem like a nascent spirit of neoliberal modernity was spreading [...]
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Last December, Angela Merkel brokered a controversial deal for the EU, resolving the crisis that Hungary’s and Poland’s veto against tying EU funds to rule-of-law generated. The deal unblocked the budget, including the Next Generation EU funds, a crucial step for countries devastated by the [...]
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We are witnessing in growing horror daily scenes of panic-buying and empty supermarket shelves. Australians are hoarding basic goods, like toilet paper, pasta and rice, in preparation for a large-scale COVID-19 outbreak. Similar behaviour has occurred in other countries, like the United [...]
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If our contemporary managerial obsession with all things numerical and quantitative has its roots in military planning in the 1950s rather than in neoliberal economic policy in the 1980s, then surely we need to pay more attention to the idea of security in political economy.
For [...]
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