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A review by garberdog
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown
2.0
Smart discussion of Foucault and some helpful explications of neoliberal rationality. Underwhelming political analysis that ignores race, colonialism, and gender. Strange valorization of liberalism (and especially the Euro-American liberal arts university) throughout.
This feels very presentist. I am not sure that particularities of Brown's analysis (e.g. the role of "sacrifice" in neoliberal logics) has or will hold up in the long term. Useful for Brown's theoretical explications of neoliberalism, but otherwise very limited.
This feels very presentist. I am not sure that particularities of Brown's analysis (e.g. the role of "sacrifice" in neoliberal logics) has or will hold up in the long term. Useful for Brown's theoretical explications of neoliberalism, but otherwise very limited.