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The Neoliberal Imagination: Politics, Aesthetics, and Economics in the Evolution of Hyper-Industrial Capitalism book cover

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The Neoliberal Imagination Politics, Aesthetics, and Economics in the Evolution of Hyper-Industrial Capitalism

By Ross Abbinnett Copyright 2021
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents a polemical account of the historical development of the neoliberal imagination. Inspired by the thought of Frederic Jameson, Bernard Stiegler, and Timothy Morton, it argues that the evolution of virtual and information technologies has transformed the ideological imaginary of capitalism. Owing to the inseparability of the process of commodification from developments in the... Read more

Introduction: What is the Neoliberal Imagination?

Part 1: Liberalism and Modernity

1. Liberalism, Enlightenment, and Bourgeois Society

2. Capitalism and the Progress of the World (1840-1918)

3. Capital and the ‘Natural History of Destruction’ (1918-48)

4. Consumption, Individualism, and Mass Society (1950-79)

5. Neoliberalism and the Postmodern Moment (1980-95)

Part 2: Neoliberal Transformations

6. Globalization and the Aesthetics of the Anthropocene

7. Posthumanism and Accelerationism

8. Power, Sovereignty, and the Return of the Repressed

Conclusion: Alternative Imaginaries

Biography

Ross Abbinnett is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Truth and Social Science, Culture and Identity, Marxism After Modernity, Politics of Happiness, and The Thought of Bernard Stiegler.

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