Neoliberal economic rationality is extinguishing the domains through which democracy materializes.
Evidence
As argued by Wendy Brown (2015, 79), a key proponent of this view, “economic values have not simply supersaturated the political or become predominant over the political. Rather, a neoliberal iteration of the homo oeconomicus is extinguishing the agent, the idiom, and the domains through which democracy … materializes.” — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 72
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: Brown’s ‘neoliberal homo oeconomicus extinguishing democracy’ is the foil the author’s homo speculans counters — the reader must frame their explanation against this.
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