Innovation requires stability, so welfare-state dismantling stultified culture.

Evidence

No doubt this chronic shortage of time goes some way to accounting for the stalled and inertial quality of culture in recent years. The neoliberal gambit was that the destruction of social security would have a dynamic effect on culture and the economy, liberating an entrepreneurial spirit that was inhibited by the red tape of bureaucratic social democratic institutions. The reality, however, is that innovation requires certain forms of stability. The disintegration of social democracy has had a dampening, rather than a dynamic, effect on culture in highly neoliberalised countries such as the UK. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1635

Categorization

• XREF: Central confirmation of the book’s threnody on cultural sterility (ch35, ch65, ch71): neoliberalism promised dynamism and delivered the pastiche-necropolis Jameson predicted. — connects to: Neoliberalism’s durability rests on fusing the economic with the cultural — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 298; Fragile cultural achievements need many conditions at once to survive; Structural stability, not risk-taking markets, generates cultural innovation. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 159 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s durability rests on fusing the economic with the cultural #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 298
• Fragile cultural achievements need many conditions at once to survive #expands (0.72)