Neoliberalism persists discredited but undead in institutions’ default settings

Evidence

MF: Yes. 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

• DEFINE: Fisher’s ‘zombie neoliberalism’ framing — discredited yet continuing — is a term worth preserving.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism persists as undead zombie beyond its discrediting — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2238; Neoliberalism’s persistence is better explained as adaptation than as zombie-like undead survival — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski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 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by default, leaving its ideology contestable — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1745 (+1 more)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 (0.98) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2238
• Neoliberalism endures as a zombie ideology that resisters cannot easily kill #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1711
• Neoliberalism’s persistence is better explained as adaptation than as zombie-like undead survival #contradicts (0.88) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 13
• Neoliberalism dominates by default, leaving its ideology contestable #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1745