Neoliberalism and neoconservatism rule together purely through dreamwork’s confabulated consistency

Evidence

What dreamwork does is to produce a confabulated consistency which covers over anomalies and contradictions, and it is this which Wendy Brown picked up on when she argued that it was precisely dreamwork which provided the best model for understanding contemporary forms of power. … Brown shows that neoliberalism and neoconservatism operated from premises which are not only inconsistent, but directly contradictory. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 123

Categorization

• XREF: Fits earlier claim that capitalism functions without anyone believing in it — dreamwork names the mechanism by which contradiction is tolerated. — connects to: Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 61; Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success; Neoliberalism operates through systematic contradiction and disavowal of its own practices — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 81 (+6 more)

Related

• Dreamwork’s confabulated consistency models how ideology now covers its contradictions. (similarity 0.90)
• Neoliberalism operates through systematic contradiction and disavowal of its own practices (similarity 0.84)
• Contradictory rationalities can symbiotically combine in one political subjectivity. (similarity 0.84)
• Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success (similarity 0.82)
• Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once (similarity 0.82)
• Neoliberalism’s plasticity prevents treating its current Euro-Atlantic form as essential truth (similarity 0.80)
• Ideologically contradictory projects can symbiotically enforce one governed subjectivity (similarity 0.80)
• Neoliberalism may not cohere as a unified doctrine in actual practice. (similarity 0.80)
• Neoliberalism is a mode of reason that is globally ubiquitous yet nonidentical with itself (similarity 0.79)
• Neoliberalism is best understood as open questions with a constant goal (similarity 0.79)
• Neoliberalism is internally diverse and marked by real internal conflict (similarity 0.79)
• Neoliberalism differs from traditional conservatism in ways that shield it from accountability (similarity 0.79)
• Neoliberalism persists as undead zombie beyond its discrediting (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism sustains itself through double-truth pretenses of spontaneous revolt masking top-down organization #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 210
• Neoliberal economism paradoxically enables neoconservative moral politics. #corroborates (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 17
• Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2142
• Neoliberalism operates through systematic contradiction and disavowal of its own practices #corroborates (0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 81
• Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success #corroborates (0.75)
• Neoliberalism is internally diverse and marked by real internal conflict #complicates (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 45
• Neoliberalism is internally plural yet not formless #complicates (0.70) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10