Neoliberalism persists as undead zombie beyond its discrediting
Evidence
Neoliberalism is now undead: it was massively discredited after the bank crises, but that hasn’t stopped it continuing in zombie form. The default settings of most of our institutions remain neoliberal, and will do so until they are reset. In claiming there was “no alternative” to neoliberalism, the neoliberals were staking a claim that they were the only modernisers. Resistance to neoliberalism was a resistance to modernisation. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2238
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism sustains itself through double-truth pretenses of spontaneous revolt masking top-down organization — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 210; Neoclassical economics as a whole is a zombie tradition resistant to refutation — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 66; Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism operates through systematic contradiction and disavowal of its own practices
#expands(0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 81 - Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success
#expands(0.80) - Declarations that neoliberalism is dead have recurred for decades
#qualifies(0.80) - Neoliberalism sustains itself through double-truth pretenses of spontaneous revolt masking top-down organization
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 210 - Neoclassical economics as a whole is a zombie tradition resistant to refutation
#complicates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 66 - Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2142 - Neoclassical economists are the zombies, not the neoliberals themselves
#contradicts(0.70)