Authors Meet Critics: "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism"
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- čas přidán 11. 12. 2019
- Presented as part of the Social Science Matrix “Authors Meet Critics” Series, the panel featured Professor Wendy Brown, author of "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West," along with Gillian Hart, Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley; and Tianna Paschel, Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley. This event was recorded on December 5, 2019.
Wendy Brown’s new book on Neoliberalism was enlightening. It was even more spectacular than Undoing the Demos. Her prose is so sharp and clean, that despite being an extremely measured and academic work there is an intensity and power to it. I couldn’t put the book down and I can’t wait to read her next work.
Poor audio makes some of the points being made fractured.
Can the guy eating his lunch move away from the cameras microphone?
God focus for human choice; kingship authority for priests and ministers; substantive human rights confederation
A feminist critique that satisfies the feminist psyche. This critique woefully lacks an analysis of the elements that actually motivates people that belong to the far right today. Those being theological and religious elements that academics don't like to immerse themselves in.
At around 14:45 she wonders why there was the right wing swing and ethno nationalistic stance. Does she not notice how so much of that occurred in Europe after Angela Merkel pulled her little "'let them come so Germany looks good" policy, which was then followed but her attempt to distribute the migrants she invited throughout the EU? Does she not notice that perhaps some of this stuff might be due to hitherto unforeseen levels of immigration, especially from countries that don't share the social norms of the host country? Doesn't she see that it was the left that demanded endless immigration and called for open borders. And when the DNC says they'll be unstoppable in a generation because of "demographic changes..." well, that might engender some anger from the other side. When the populist leader of Hungary (a rat who uses many of the same tricks as the Islamist swine El Presidente Erdogan) says they want tax policies that encourage later Hungarian families he gets denounced as a racist by leftists in the EU parliament. Jesus! It's racist to say "oh, I'd like my countries culture to survive and not be replaced by Muslims" - Some people might know that Muslims have a history in Hungary that they don't in France or Holland. That might result in a different response to mass migration from the Muslims world.
It's as if I'm listening to a smart person doing an interesting analysis but under such ideological or institutional blinders that she can't properly make sense of what's happening in the first place. Imagine such attitudes coming from a professor a Berkley of all places! Notice that the Professor Hart tells a story of Professor Brown saying that she felt "compelled" to work on Trumpism. Right, that was the Democrat knee-jerk "the fascists are coming the fascists are coming!" response to Hillary losing the election to Trump (I say he didn't win, she just fumbled to badly that, under a two party system, he won."
Final thought. The DNC said "you will vote for Hillary in the primary" and Democratic base did so even though they didn't like her or her policies. The RNC said "you will vote for Job Bush" and the Republican base said "screw you" and elected Trump. Now, which one of those two reactions to top down political dictates is more democratic?
So it's the e commies fault, is it? And if FACTS can't change a fascists mind, what can? Look at yourself in the mirror. There hasn't been any real leftism in the EU for decades