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Brown undoing the demos
Brown undoing the demos









brown undoing the demos brown undoing the demos

Radical democratic dreams may not either. Liberal democratic practices may not survive these transformations. The demos disintegrates into bits of human capital concerns with justice cede to the mandates of growth rates, credit ratings, and investment climates liberty submits to the imperative of human capital appreciation equality dissolves into market competition and popular sovereignty grows incoherent. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In vivid detail, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. Neoliberal rationality - ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture - remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus.











Brown undoing the demos