Film Sessions: What is Neoliberalism (Link)

Editor’s note: happy new year everyone. As I mentioned the other day, the circumstances of my recent Twitter banning have forced me to migrate links to all of my content, including Film Session blogs, over here to ninaillingworth.com. The upshot here is that I was struggling with insomnia for half the night, so I stayed up to write what is essentially a full (albeit short) essay; complete with extensive citations.

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With the arrival of a new year, and soon, a new leader of the Pig Empire, it’s time to partially shift our focus away from studying overt, ethno-nationalist forms of fascism and familiarize ourselves with the impending covert form of fascism the Biden administration will bring – the return of neoliberalism. Combining a twenty-six minute video from Youtube creator Tom Nicholas, with an essay length analysis and over fifteen additional links to important essays about neoliberalism, today’s post is the best primer on the ideology shaping our entire existence that (absolutely zero) money can buy; and a vital resource for our discussions about American politics going forward.

“So just what the heck is neoliberalism anyway? For the easy answer, we could turn to Dr. Cornel West who once described neoliberalism as essentially the worship of markets. As we’ll see in a moment however, the problem with this definition is that in seeking to hoist the neoliberals on their own petards, it ultimately treats neoliberal theory as an honest descriptor of neoliberal practice – which is quite frankly, not a very smart idea.” 

To check it out over on Media Madness, click on the header or the image below:

 

Film Sessions “Neoliberalism: From Ronald Reagan to the Gig Economy” by Tom Nicholas

 

 

 

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