American Politics in the Era of Zombie Neoliberalism

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1215/08992363-8358662

A. Kotsko

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Adam Kotsko analyzes the current political conjuncture in the United States through the lens of political theology, which he understands as fundamentally a study of systems of legitimacy. From this perspective, the neoliberal order is not merely an economic or political order but also a theological one, centered on the axiomatic value of free choice and imbued with a faith in the market’s judgment of our free choices. The system-wide effects of the global financial crisis, which did not correlate with any good or bad choices, shattered the legitimacy of the neoliberal order, but so far both major US political parties have been focused on somehow rehabilitating neoliberalism rather than breaking with it. In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, this attempt to restore neoliberalism has reached farcical levels, as both parties are seduced by conspiracy theories that implicitly concede that the current order is illegitimate, yet fail to promote a real alternative.

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僵尸新自由主义时代的美国政治

Adam Kotsko通过政治神学的视角分析了美国当前的政治形势，他认为这从根本上是对合法性制度的研究。从这个角度来看，新自由主义秩序不仅是一种经济或政治秩序，也是一种神学秩序，以自由选择的公理价值为中心，并对市场对我们自由选择的判断充满信心。全球金融危机的全系统影响，与任何好的或坏的选择无关，破坏了新自由主义秩序的合法性，但到目前为止，美国两个主要政党都专注于以某种方式恢复新自由主义，而不是与之决裂。在特朗普就职后，这种恢复新自由论的尝试达到了滑稽的程度，由于两党都被阴谋论所诱惑，这些阴谋论含蓄地承认目前的秩序是非法的，但却未能推动真正的替代方案。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.