TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dean,Jodi
TI  - Democracy and other neoliberal fantasies: communicative capitalism and left politics 
SN  - 9780822344926 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - JK2316 .D43 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.).
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - United States.
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Neoliberalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-2009
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.; Post-politics and left victory -- Technology : the promises of communicative capitalism -- Free trade : the neoliberal fantasy -- Democracy : a knot of hope and despair -- Resolve : speaking of evil -- Ethics : left responsiveness and retreat -- Certainty : 9/11 conspiracy theories and psychosis
N2  - Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility for the extensive neoliberalization implemented during the Clinton presidency. She argues that the left's ability to develop and defend a collective vision of equality and solidarity has been undermined by the ascendance of "communicative capitalism," a constellation of consumerism, the privileging of the self over group interests, and the embrace of the language of victimization. As Dean explains, communicative capitalism is enabled and exacerbated by the Web and other networked communications media, which reduce political energies to the registration of opinion and the transmission of feelings. The result is a psychotic politics where certainty displaces credibility and the circulation of intense feeling trumps the exchange of reason
ER  -