Undoing the Demos

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2019-03-28

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Virginia Tech Publishing

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This review charts the substantive theoretical import, diagnostic utility, as well as the conceptual and stylistic limits of Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos. Brown adamantly charts the destructive effects of contemporary neoliberalism, construed largely as an insidious form of rationality rather than simply an economic system, and the hollowing out of democratic political life which has ensued from its ascension. The account of neoliberalism supplied by Undoing the Demos presents an indispensable tool with which to forge modalities of both analysis and resistance yet also contains important limitations which circumscribe some of the book’s utility and gesture toward the need for critical supplement.

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Fallon, J., 2019. Undoing the Demos. Spectra, 7(1), pp.50–54. DOI: http://doi.org/10.21061/spectra.v7i1.128

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