UNDOING THE DEMOS

Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture -- remakes ever ything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of demo cracy into an economic register? In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. The demos disintegrat es into bits of human capital/ concerns with justice bow to the mandates of growth rates, credit ratings, and investment climates/ l iberty s...[Read more]