Neo-neoliberalism extends privatized preference beyond all limits and finitude.

Evidence

One can only concur with Grant Farred’s comment, then, that the “new” society of post-apartheid South Africa is characterized by the pretense of choice. The pretense of choice, its formalistic possibility, concerns the partial parameters facing those for whom the conditions enable choices freely to be made. This pretense of choice perfectly characterizes the neoliberal condition. It is choice within the limits of one’s means and networks, one’s inheritance and education, one’s class and gender, all of which are racially marked if much less deeply and directly determined than under apartheid. While hardly a perfect analogy, it is perhaps revealing to note that one can move through South African society today marked by race to something like the extent citizens were mobile in midtwentieth-century America marked by religion. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1599 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal governability extends beyond what Foucault imagined through maximum freedom — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 215; Neoliberalism elevates capital and information flows over all other freedoms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1743; Neoliberalism generalizes the economic form across the entire social field, unlike classical liberalism. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 105 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal choice is a pretense limited by means, networks, and inherited position #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1599