The Russian doll structure amplifies individual neoliberal voices across distinct organizations and personas
Evidence
The Russian doll structure of the Neoliberal Thought Collective would tend to amplify and distribute the voice of any one member throughout a series of seemingly different organizations, personas, and broadcast settings, lending it resonance and gravitas, not to mention fronting an echo chamber for ideas right at the time when hearing them was most propitious. Not without admiration, we have to concede that neoliberal intellectuals struggled through to a deeper understanding of the political and organizational character of modern knowledge and science than did their opponents on the left, and therefore present a worthy contemporary challenge to everyone interested in the archaeology of knowledge. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 137
Categorization
- XREF: Echo chamber dynamics here connect to the reader’s existing work on epistemic communities and the ‘thought collective’ — recall Fleck’s thought collective concept, which Mirowski openly borrows from. — connects to: Neoliberal thought control is organized as nested institutions — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 124; The neoliberal thought collective is a multilevel, multiphase, multisector political capacity-building project — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 1325; Neoliberal organization was deliberately structured as layered, opaque concentric circles — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2119
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 137
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal thought control is organized as nested institutions
#corroborates(0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 124 - The neoliberal thought collective is a multilevel, multiphase, multisector political capacity-building project
#expands(0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 1325 - Neoliberal organization was deliberately structured as layered, opaque concentric circles
#corroborates(0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2119