Innovation requires stability that neoliberalism’s dismantled social democracy provided

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. Fredric Jameson’s claims that late-capitalist culture would be given over to pastiche and retrospection have turned out to be extraordinarily prophetic. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1635

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with skills-about-cultural-repetition claims and the Grafting & Growth piece on organic, slow development. — connects to: Innovation requires stability, so welfare-state dismantling stultified culture. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1635
• SEED: Angle for an essay: the myth of stability-free entrepreneurial dynamism and how precarity actually retards cultural production.

Broader Connections

• Innovation requires stability, so welfare-state dismantling stultified culture. #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1635