Re: Brexit democracy

Wendy Brown was a crucial writer for all those who wanted to understand neoliberalism in the 1990s and 2000s. I subsequently lost track of her, mainly because you can't follow everything but also because I began to perceive her work as an endless critique of the adversary, with no positive

Brexit democracy

Greetings, It is encouraging to see Wendy Brown’s name appearing in this discussion and so I will add a bit more of her insightfulness:  "the institutions as well as the political culture comprising liberal democracy are passing into history, the left is faced both with the project of mourning

Re: Brexit democracy

Wendy Brown is an indispensable thinker for these times. In addition to Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, her recent short text that explores the progression from neoliberalism to neofascism is a must-read: http://www.publicbooks.org/defending-society/ (and for more depth on this subject, see her

Re: Brexit democracy

Not new to anyone here i'm sure, but this thread can't help bringing to mind Wendy Brown's ever more prescient work on this subject- especially chapter IV http://www.tepotech.com/chiapas2015/Brown_Walled_States.pdf On 6 November 2017 at 15:44, Brian Holmes wrote:

Re: Brexit democracy

On 11/06/2017 05:13 AM, David Garcia wrote: The success of the slogan ‘Take Back Control” is cruscial to understand it speaks to the profound loss of agency that so many of us feel and how for many the capacity to disrupt politics as usual gave Brexit voters a sense of power. This is spot

Re: Brexit democracy

Thanks to Patrice for the posting For the record I am and remain a Remain Voter and will continue to fight for a reversal of what I believe will be a nihilistic decision that will curb the life chances of future generations. But the narrative of the piece posted by Patrice carries the

Brexit democracy

From Sauvons l'Europe newsletter http://sauvonsleurope.eu/brexit-hold-up-sur-la-democratie/ In French Deepl.com translated: Brexit: Democracy robbery? By Arthur News/editorial comment November 6,2017 We have already written about the confiscation of the most basic democratic principles in the