Negative Capitalism Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era by Dan Taylor

Negative Capitalism Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era by Dan Taylor

Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the current economic crisis. Through a ranging series of analyses and perspectives, it argues that cynicism has become culturally embedded in the UK and US as an effect of disempowerment by neoliberal capitalism. Yet despite the deprivation and collapse of key social infrastructure like representative democracy, welfare, workers' rights and equal access to resources, there has so far been no collective, effective and sustained overthrow of capitalism. Why is this? The book's central call is for new strategies that unravel this narcissistic cynicism, embracing social democracy, constitutional rights, mass bankruptcies and animate sabotage. Kafka, Foucault, Ballard and de Sade are clashed with the X-Factor, ruinporn, London, and the artwork of Laura Oldfield Ford. Negative Capitalism's polemic is written to incite responses against the cynical malaise of the neoliberal era.

Negative Capitalism represents a new generation of critique by what I've termed graduates without a futureTaylor brings together incisive and provocative analysis alongside personal experience to explore how debt, cynicism, smartphones, psychopharmacology, underemployment and neoliberalism all represent a new era of negation. In a time of economic meltdown and mass struggle, this book offers one way out of the current crisis. --Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight Economics Editor and author of Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere, and Meltdown

J.D. Taylor is a writer and community worker from London. He has been active in the recent university fees protests, and he blogs at Drowned and Saved.

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Title	Negative Capitalism Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era
Author	Dan Taylor
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Collective Ink
Year published	2013-03-29
Number of pages	182
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