...Mike Gane Neoliberal Culture: Living with American Neoliberalism , by Ventura Patricia , Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate , 2012 , 148 pages, £55 (hardcover), IBSN 978-1-4094-4343-8 © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Theoretical neoliberalism is the long work of reconstruction...

..., [it] is no longer modern but post-modern”; its culture is purely a form of recycling of “liberated” elements subject to an immense process of revision and cleaning up) (1994a: 36). That term has passed out of fashion ( Ventura 2012 : 6), and “neo-liberalization” has taken its place. Postmodernism is now regarded...

... toward the Ventura Freeway” (767). In downtown LA you are surrounded by increasingly congested truck traffic. Heading up the Hollywood Freeway, you are passed by “a mysteriously canvassed trailer rig and a liquid-hydrogen tanker” (756)—precisely the type of convoy or motorized rocket brigade Waffen-SS...