Neoliberalism endures as a zombie ideology that resisters cannot easily kill

Evidence

Since 2008, neoliberalism might have been deprived of the feverish forward momentum it once possessed, but it is nowhere near collapsing. Neoliberalism now shambles on as zombie — but as the afficionados of zombie films are well aware, it is sometimes harder to kill a zombie than a living person. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1711

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates Fisher’s later essay on capitalist realism and contemporary discussions of zombie institutions; links to the wider post-2008 discourse on why crises fail to dislodge ruling paradigms. — connects to: 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; Neoliberalism persists as undead zombie beyond its discrediting — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2238; Neoliberalism dominates by default, leaving its ideology contestable — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1745 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism persists as undead zombie beyond its discrediting #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2238
• Neoliberalism dominates by default, leaving its ideology contestable #qualifies (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1745