Knowledge, Communication, and Anti-Critical Publicity: The Friedmans’ Market Public

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Theory Pub Date : 2021-05-08 DOI:10.1093/ct/qtaa033

R. Asen

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Abstract

Focusing on the writings of Milton and Rose Friedman, this article explicates a model of a market public as the normative mode of public engagement in a neoliberal regime of governance. The Friedmans’ market public narrowly construes conceptions of knowledge as arising from direct experience and communication as information exchange. Knowledge as direct experience supports the putative universality of self-interest and the sovereignty of individuals as exclusive public actors. Presuming a uniformity of understanding, communication as information exchange dissociates advocates from messages and contributes to the Friedmans’ view of persuasion as an individualistic mode of interaction. Connecting the Friedmans’ model to contemporary scholarly critiques of neoliberalism, I argue that this model portends significant anti-democratic consequences. Citing former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ campaign to reorganize public education as a market, I illustrate the contemporary circulation of this model.

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知识、沟通与反批判宣传:弗里德曼的市场公众

本文以弥尔顿和罗斯·弗里德曼的著作为重点，阐述了市场公众作为新自由主义治理体制中公众参与的规范模式的模型。弗里德曼的市场公众狭隘地将知识概念理解为来自直接经验，将沟通理解为信息交换。作为直接经验的知识支持假定的自利的普遍性和作为排他性公共行为者的个人主权。假设理解的一致性，作为信息交换的沟通将倡导者与信息分离开来，并有助于弗里德曼将说服视为一种个人主义的互动模式的观点。将弗里德曼的模型与当代对新自由主义的学术批评联系起来，我认为这种模型预示着严重的反民主后果。我以美国前教育部长贝特西·德沃斯(Betsy DeVos)将公共教育重组为市场的运动为例，说明了这种模式在当代的流通。

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Communication Theory COMMUNICATION-

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9.00

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2.70%

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