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Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather
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Jonathan Wolff • Ethics and Public Policy
Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Across much of the West, we are witnessing how the voluntary involvement of civic groups is essential for the sustaining of agriculture, education, welfare and people’s mental and physical health. But so far the new corporatism depends too much on the will of the executive and on central resources.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
Like the neoliberals that preceded them, the ‘neocons’ had long been nurturing their particular views on the social order, in universities (Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago being particularly influential) and well-funded think-tanks, and through influential publications (such as Commentary).20 US neoconservatives favour corporate power, pri
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Yet faced with the forces of global capitalism and technology, no country can do this on its own. Democratic and plural associations are also needed internationally to enable workers to resist the dehumanization and exploitation of the world economy. The alternative to hyper-capitalism and authoritarian nationalism is a renewed democratic corporati
... See moreAdrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
But each development and the wider world that might take shape after the viral emergency can go one of three ways: either reverting to the well-trodden path of liberalism, or sliding towards the cliff-edge of antiliberalism, or taking the road of postliberalism.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
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