This essay introduces the special issue “Genres of Neoliberalism,” which considers the relationship between neoliberalism and aesthetic formations across a range of sites, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Kenya, Mali, the Philippines, and the United States. While the … Continue reading “Introduction: Genres of Neoliberalism”
Issue: Issue 115 Genres of Neoliberalism
Genres of Neoliberalism
Life-Times of Disposability within Global Neoliberalism
Neferti X. M. TadiarRecent scholarly works have described the perceived shift from liberalism to neoliberalism in terms of a shift in the logic of constitution of forms of personhood and governmentality from one constructed around rights and property to another constructed around risk … Continue reading “Life-Times of Disposability within Global Neoliberalism”
The Afterlife of Slavery and the Problem of Reproductive Freedom
Alys Eve WeinbaumThis article explores the historical continuity between women’s sexual and reproductive exploitation in chattel slavery and in contemporary biocapitalism. It theorizes the centrality of the exploitation of the reproductive body and reproductive processes to the long history of racial capitalism … Continue reading “The Afterlife of Slavery and the Problem of Reproductive Freedom”
Improper Selves: Cultures of Precarity
Gabriel GiorgiThe notion of precarity, central to the analysis of neoliberalism, shows a rhetorical and semantic instability between the exceptional and the normal, the individual and the collective, the social and the ontological. This instability is, I argue, at the core … Continue reading “Improper Selves: Cultures of Precarity”
Suffering Agency: Imagining Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain
Jane ElliottJane Elliott examines the way in which twenty-first-century fiction imagines what she terms suffering agency, or the experience of agency as an omnipresent and overriding burden for the neoliberal subject. By focusing on the high-profile and acclaimed novels Life of Pi (2001), Never Let … Continue reading “Suffering Agency: Imagining Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain”
African Popular Crime Genres and the Genres of Neoliberalism
Matthew J. ChristensenOf the rich array of popular genre forms that fill book and video shops across the African continent, few engage as complexly as crime novels and films the profound crises of selfhood, sovereignty, and collective obligation wrought by the neoliberal … Continue reading “African Popular Crime Genres and the Genres of Neoliberalism”
Virtual Predators: Neoliberal Loss and Human Futures in the Cinema of Pedophilia
Gillian HarkinsIn this article, Gillian Harkins explores how the noir genre informs 1990s and 2000s films depicting pedophiles as predators indiscernible to the naked eye. Harkins provides an overview of how the “virtual pedophile” emerges through a combination of filmic and … Continue reading “Virtual Predators: Neoliberal Loss and Human Futures in the Cinema of Pedophilia”
Unfinished Business: Notes toward an Artist Statement
Carey YoungCarey Young’s artistic work often focuses on the growing influence of corporations and the legal sphere on individual and collective subjectivity, which she explores using a variety of media including video, photography, installation, and performance. In this article, which takes … Continue reading “Unfinished Business: Notes toward an Artist Statement”