Managed public displays of grief inaugurated a new phase of neoliberal governance in Britain.

Evidence

The death famously wrongfooted the monarchy, with its older models of duty and emotional restraint, but Blair’s delivery of his famous speech about the “People’s Princess” — scripted by New Labour’s spin doctor, Alastair Campbell — not only established his authority as a prime minister, it initiated a new phase of neoliberal governance in Britain. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1916

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader capitalist-realism thesis in this same volume and to ADDENDUM 1’s infrastructure-as-worldbuilding theme only loosely; better placed alongside writing on manufactured emotional consensus and moral panics. — connects to: Neoliberal market discipline was adopted to pacify unruly democratic publics — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 122; Governance only became neoliberalism’s administrative form after converging with it — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 232; New Labour’s emo-politics were fundamental to securing UK neoliberalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1928

Broader Connections

• New Labour’s emo-politics were fundamental to securing UK neoliberalism #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1928
• Neoliberal market discipline was adopted to pacify unruly democratic publics #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 122
• Governance only became neoliberalism’s administrative form after converging with it #qualifies (0.72) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 232