Minimal survival attention is deficient in three ways that expose the neoliberal rationality gap

Evidence

Put the other way around, a liberal arts education available to the many is essential to any modern democracy we could value, but is not indigenous to it. Democracy can defund, degrade, or abandon the education it requires, undermining its resources for sustaining or renewing itself, even for valuing or desiring itself. Indeed, one crucial effect of neoliberal rationality is to reduce the desire for democracy, along with its discursive intelligibility when it does appear. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 398 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism conflates bare survival with the good life by ignoring the means-ends entanglement — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 116; Neoliberal rationality reduces the very desire for democracy — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 398

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal rationality reduces the very desire for democracy #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 398