Neoliberalism has ended as a hegemonic project despite institutional persistence

Evidence

Neoliberalism is finished as a project, even if it lurches on, thrashing around like a decorticated terminator. We’re finally groping our way, blinking, out of capitalist realism. The psychic blockade that prevented us from thinking and acting is lifting. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1840

Categorization

• XREF: Directly pays off Fisher’s own concept of capitalist realism from his earlier book and essays; the whole chapter restates his core thesis — connects to: Conflating globalized capitalism with neoliberalism collapses distinct hegemonic constellations — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 25; Neoliberalism cemented its hegemony by attacking paternalism as obsolete — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2167; Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism persists through pervasive cultural imagery, not popular political theory #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 246
• Conflating globalized capitalism with neoliberalism collapses distinct hegemonic constellations #responds-to (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 25
• Neoliberalism’s durability rests on fusing the economic with the cultural #complicates (0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 298
• Neoliberalism operates from a unified playbook despite surface variation #complicates (0.77) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 917
• Neoliberalism intensifies rather than breaks with capitalist state form #complicates (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748
• Neoliberalism cemented its hegemony by attacking paternalism as obsolete #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2167
• Neoliberalism is internally plural yet not formless #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10
• Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success #complicates (0.74)
• Neoliberalism survived by commodifying minority difference rather than opposing it #complicates (0.74) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 185
• Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it #qualifies (0.72) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 88