The year 2016 concentrated political reversals of 1989’s open-world expectations

Evidence

The expectations of 1989 have capsized: Trump was elected president in the same year that Britain voted to exit the European Union. The landscapes Tillmans would once have seen on his flights to Manchester are being fenced off; across Europe, barriers are going up. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 36

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-1989 politics celebrated the absence of alternatives to market globalization — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 65; Neoliberals saw the post-1989 world as a winning proselytizing field — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 553; 2016 disillusioned Western users with internet utopianism — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 495 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Post-1989 politics celebrated the absence of alternatives to market globalization — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 65; Neoliberals saw the post-1989 world as a winning proselytizing field — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 553; 2016 disillusioned Western users with internet utopianism — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 495 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Current crises express immanent speculative politics rather than an interregnum awaiting new birth #complicates (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 363