The Iconoclastic Imagination and the Meaning of Rhetorical Criticism

Abstract

This neoliberal project entailed shifting the social from the artificial to the natural, from the domain of the visible to that of the invisible, and from the domain of the beautiful to that of the sublime. In neoliberalism, we are met not so much with a conspiracy to protect the ineffable, but to assert, and indeed in some sense institute the ineffable. This cannot but be an attempt to overcome politics — not the least, democratic politics.