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To: ggersh who wrote (144273)	11/16/2018 7:42:51 PM
From: marcher	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Respond to of 217576

--what the human species is capable/incapable of.-- i'm working my way through a recent piece by wendy brown about current u.s. political ethos. it's written for an academic audience, so not a quick read. you might find it interesting: ctjournal.org ['view pdf' to read article] ...neoliberal rationality...economizes every sphere and human endeavor, and it replaces a model of society based on the justice-producing social contract with society conceived and organized as markets and with states oriented by market requirements. As neoliberal rationality becomes our ubiquitous common sense, its principles not only govern through the state but suffuse workplaces, schools, hospitals, gyms, air travel, policing, and all manner of human desire and decisions. Higher education, for example, is not only reconfigured by neoliberal rationality as an investment by human capital in the enhancement of its own future value; this transformation makes literally unintelligible the idea and practice of education as a democratic public good. Everything in universities is affected by this—tuition levels and budget priorities, of course, but also curricula, teaching and research practices, hiring and admissions criteria, and administrative concerns and conduct. The coordinates of ostensibly liberal democratic nations are similarly reformatted. ...[For neoliberalism] freedom is submitted to market meanings, it is stripped of the political valences that attach it to popular sovereignty and thus to democracy. Instead, freedom is equated wholly with the pursuit of private ends, it is appropriately unregulated, and it is largely exercised to enhance the value, competitive positioning, or market share of a person or firm. Its sole political significance is negative—flourishing where politics and especially government are absent. As neoliberal reason reconfigures freedom’s meaning, subjects, and objects in this way, it tarnishes the left with opposition to freedom tout court, not just in the economy. ...Thatcher’s intellectual lodestar, Friedrich Hayek, decried “the social” as a term at once mythical, incoherent, and dangerous, falsely anthropomorphizing and drawing on animism, too.