Neo-neoliberalism’s universalizing reach depends on deliberate destruction and neglect

Evidence

But in this imperious and imperializing reach, in its world-making universalism, its overarching and overreaching aspiration, neo-neoliberalism must necessarily trade on disinvestment and avoidance, displacement and restriction, distance and desolation, damnation and desolation, on destruction and what Naomi Klein generalizes as disaster. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1878

Categorization

• XREF: Explicitly invokes Naomi Klein’s disaster capitalism, tying the chapter’s neo-neoliberalism concept to her shock-doctrine framework. — connects to: Neoliberal modernisation aimed to destroy non-market sources of social reproduction — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 354; Neoliberalism’s persistence is better explained as adaptation than as zombie-like undead survival — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 13; Post-Fordist capitalism both needs and destroys the nuclear family — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 70