Neoliberalism decomposed political collectivities through privatising the mind.

Evidence

In 1985, political collectivities were in the process of being violently decomposed – this was also the year in which the Miners’ Strike ended in bitter defeat – as the neoliberal political programme began to impose the ‘privatisation of the mind’ which is now everywhere taken for granted. Akomfrah’s optimistic take on the current riots – that those who rioted will come to constitute themselves as a collective agent – suggests that we might be seeing the reversal of this psychic privatisation. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 536

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is dense material about how collective capacities get privatised into the psyche.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Globalised capital has colonised the depths that Freud called the unconscious. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 531; What reads as progressive change can consolidate the very order it promised to end — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 544; Since 1979 Britain has seen the remorseless destruction of the concept of the public. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 318 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism extinguishes the political subject that critiques of capitalism presupposed #corroborates (0.88) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 218
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Neoliberalism replaces labor with human capital and dissolves the stable self #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 162
• Neoliberalism redefined human being itself as human capital. #expands (0.78) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 134
• Neoliberalism abolishes classes, the individual, and Lockean property in one move #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 164
• Neoliberals conditioned self-government on accepting market discipline #corroborates (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 297