Hotspring 44
08-19-2015, 11:02 AM
I heard one of the authors on a local radio show today and looked up the book titled: “Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle” because it is what the radio show was based on.
Anyway curiosity got to me so I did an internet search.
Based on that searching I came upon the article in truth-out.org (https://www.truth-out.org/) where the header of that article has the word “neoliberal” in it so I decided to look that up because that 'word' is so misunderstood by many including me (apparently):fie:.
The word (term) “neoliberal” needs it's own thread on waccobb so I won't go on about that any more here.
A couple of snippets from the article in truth-out.org dated June 1 2014:
We live, however, in a different political moment. The state is no longer the center of politics. Neoliberalism has made a bonfire of the sovereign principles embodied in the social contract.
Nor can we simply diagnose 21st century forms of oppression and exploitation by relying on well-rehearsed orthodoxies of our recent past.
With power and its modalities of violence having entered into the global space of flows - detached from the controlling political interests of the nation-state, utilizing technologies far beyond those imagined in the most exaggerating of 20th century fictions, the dystopian theorists of yesteryears prove to be of limited use.(3)
(https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures#a3)
Hope appears increasingly to have fallen prey to predatory formations of global capitalism and its engulfing webs of precarity that have reduced human life to the task of merely being able to survive.
Individual and collective agencies are not only under siege unlike any other time in history, but have become depoliticized, overcome by a culture of anxiety, insecurity, commodification and privatization.
Citizens are now reduced to data, consumers and commodities.
and:
Dystopian politics has become mainstream politics as the practice of disposability has intensified and more and more individuals and groups are now considered excess, consigned to "zones of abandonment," surveillance and incarceration.
The expansive politics of disposability can be seen in the rising numbers of homeless, the growing army of debt-ridden students whose existing and future prospects remain bleak, those lacking basic necessities amid widening income disparities, the surveillance of immigrants, the school-to-prison pipeline and the widespread destruction of the middle class by new forms of debt servitude.(7) (https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures#a7)
Citizens, as Gilles Deleuze foresaw(8) (https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures#a8),
are now reduced to data, consumers and commodities and, as such, inhabit identities in which they increasingly become unknowables, with no human rights and with no one accountable for their condition.
The rest of the article is @: https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures
Anyway curiosity got to me so I did an internet search.
Based on that searching I came upon the article in truth-out.org (https://www.truth-out.org/) where the header of that article has the word “neoliberal” in it so I decided to look that up because that 'word' is so misunderstood by many including me (apparently):fie:.
The word (term) “neoliberal” needs it's own thread on waccobb so I won't go on about that any more here.
A couple of snippets from the article in truth-out.org dated June 1 2014:
We live, however, in a different political moment. The state is no longer the center of politics. Neoliberalism has made a bonfire of the sovereign principles embodied in the social contract.
Nor can we simply diagnose 21st century forms of oppression and exploitation by relying on well-rehearsed orthodoxies of our recent past.
With power and its modalities of violence having entered into the global space of flows - detached from the controlling political interests of the nation-state, utilizing technologies far beyond those imagined in the most exaggerating of 20th century fictions, the dystopian theorists of yesteryears prove to be of limited use.(3)
(https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures#a3)
Hope appears increasingly to have fallen prey to predatory formations of global capitalism and its engulfing webs of precarity that have reduced human life to the task of merely being able to survive.
Individual and collective agencies are not only under siege unlike any other time in history, but have become depoliticized, overcome by a culture of anxiety, insecurity, commodification and privatization.
Citizens are now reduced to data, consumers and commodities.
and:
Dystopian politics has become mainstream politics as the practice of disposability has intensified and more and more individuals and groups are now considered excess, consigned to "zones of abandonment," surveillance and incarceration.
The expansive politics of disposability can be seen in the rising numbers of homeless, the growing army of debt-ridden students whose existing and future prospects remain bleak, those lacking basic necessities amid widening income disparities, the surveillance of immigrants, the school-to-prison pipeline and the widespread destruction of the middle class by new forms of debt servitude.(7) (https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures#a7)
Citizens, as Gilles Deleuze foresaw(8) (https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures#a8),
are now reduced to data, consumers and commodities and, as such, inhabit identities in which they increasingly become unknowables, with no human rights and with no one accountable for their condition.
The rest of the article is @: https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures