... Press 2015 Ahmet Davutoğlu Turkey political authoritarianism neoliberalism neotraditionalism Intervention Twin Offspring of Empire, Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Neotraditionalism: Thoughts on Susan Buck-­Morss’s “Democracy...

... relations between Nordic noir and the welfare state as well as the less-noted role of neoliberal ideology in sponsoring critiques of the welfare state. It proposes that the genre acts out a rich and troubled dialogue between the welfare state, which is based on a rejection of the individual’s moral...

...Joe Cleary The lack of any strongly sustained popular resistance to the policies that have issued from the wider global neoliberal crash of 2008 has been a conspicuous feature of Irish society over the last decade. Though that crisis fragmented the political field in the Republic of Ireland, Irish...

...Annie McClanahan Drawing on Philip Mirowski’s account of the origins of neoliberal doctrine in Friedrich Hayek’s “Mont Pèlerin Society,” founded in the late 1940s, this essay asks two questions. First, how do we explain the historical gap between neoliberalism’s construction as a doctrine...

...Devan Bailey Abstract Writing in The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988) late in his career, the neoliberal theorist F. A. Hayek lamented that writers and artists of his time had remained under the spell of “constructivist rationalism.” The truth, however, is more interesting. Sharing...

..., however momentarily, the apparently closed language of neoliberal freedom and progress. The essay turns to figurations of Eastern Europe’s contemporary predicament found in Michał Witkowski’s novel Lovetown (2004), which tracks an aging queer community for whom the transition to capitalism and liberal...

...Christian Thorne The essay surveys the surprising intellectual affinities between Hayekian neoliberalism and the work of one of its leading critics, Philip Mirowski. One of the chief characteristics of neoliberalism, on Mirowski’s account, is its philosophical skepticism or antifoundationalism—its...

... and neoliberalism, registering the collateral damage essential to Western European whiteness and a neoliberal problematic. These framings of migrant incarceration continue to effectively serve a critical function. However, this essay argues that the historical character of immigration incarceration...

...Melinda Cooper This article questions the culturalist and civilizational taxonomies of postsecular theory by redirecting attention toward the practical consequences of public theology in the realm of neoliberal welfare reform. Tracing the simultaneous rise of faith-based welfare and the religious...

... to achieve sustained growth if the economy is to return to precrisis levels. One premise of the current optimism is that what we are witnessing is the recovery from an ordinary recession. This, however, seriously misunderstands the nature of the crisis. The dynamic development of global neoliberalism and its...

... of reasons, it is useful here because of the ways these poets struggle with and critique the neoliberal normalization and market-driven homogenization of Northern Irish culture in the aftermath of the Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement). But this poetry also admits complicity with the historical...

...Philip Mirowski The contemporary literature on neoliberalism has grown so large as to be unwieldy. For some on the left, this has presented an occasion to denounce it altogether. This essay briefly diagnoses some of the possible reasons for the spreading disaffection and links that diagnosis...

...Christian Thorne A wide-ranging interview with Philip Mirowski, in which he, among other things, clarifies his position on the critique of science, issues several challenges to the contemporary Left, and explains why his account of the Neoliberal Thought Collective is not a conspiracy theory...

...Philip Mirowski This is a meditation on the problems and pitfalls of writing a history of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, in the context of Nancy MacLean’s popular book on the role of James Buchanan in modern political economy. MacClean Nancy , Democracy in Chains: The Deep History...

...Rebecca M. Herzig Abstract Placing the neoliberal academy's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Norman O. Brown's May 1960 Phi Beta Kappa speech, “Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind,” this essay considers the place of madness, sacrifice, and monstrous motherhood...

... and that many more prosperous capitalist societies might envy. To travel the island in summer 2017 would be to notice, too, that the tourist coaches are bustling up and down the motorways once again, visi- tors from the United States, where the neoliberal crisis was triggered, and from Germany...

... surveys material from several of Mirowski’s projects, drawing out some of the many ways in which his analyses of neoliberalism, of computational thinking in economics and the social sciences, and of the form and function of our notions of “information” have profound implications for how we understand...

..., this means at the very least a reconsideration of neoliberalism as a set of economic theories and policy positions and the structural arrangements that have emerged from the interaction of the theories (and theorists) with policy around the world over the last several decades (see Mirowski 2002 ; Mirowski...

...Marcia Landy The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a restructuring of capital and redistribution of wealth to the top of an economic pyramid on an international scale. This neoliberal “reform” involves the gradual dismantling of the welfare state, relegation of the employed...

... is consolidated by groundless and nonobligatory mergers between neoliberal postulates and the pieties of a so-called tradition. The essay illustrates this phenomenon through some examples from popular Hindi cinema. Hindutva and Informatic Modernization The recent renaissance of such hard-right thinkers...