Undoing the Demos

by Wendy Brown

Published 13 February 2015

Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures.

Neoliberal rationality-ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture-remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In Undoing...

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