People are haunted by futures the Eighties neoliberal turn terminated

Evidence

I mean, there was a trajectory, and this trajectory was interrupted. And now we find ourselves haunted by this future that we vaguely expected at the time, and that was terminated somewhere during the Eighties by the values related to neoliberalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2290

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The sixties apocalyptic sense of imminent upheaval is now barely accessible — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 672; Lost futures haunt a city more keenly than its past does — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 212; Symbolic decline leaves people trapped in incommunicable personal realities — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 99 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Austerity’s three pressures function to foreclose the imagination of alternatives. #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 156
• Neoliberal rhetoric slurs the past into the present to keep old enemies alive #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1816
• Symbolic decline leaves people trapped in incommunicable personal realities #expands (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 99
• Neoliberalism transforms the self so that crises stop being read as system failures #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 302