Sublime

Friedrich Hayek, who has become an iconic figure among today’s conservatives, was a strong proponent of the idea. In his three-volume work Law, Legislation and Liberty, published between 1973 and 1979, Hayek suggested that a guaranteed income would be a legitimate government policy designed to provide insurance against adversity, and that the need

Awareness’ is an unambitious political end-goal for a few reasons. Firstly: awareness of what? The information circulated in ‘awareness’ narratives often uncritically props up neoliberal ideology. Neoliberalism supports the privatisation of major businesses, cuts to state welfare, and an emphasis on ‘individual responsibility

Alors qu’on pouvait jusqu’aux années 1990 (à condition d’en profiter) associer l’horizon de la modernisation avec les notions de progrès, d’émancipation, de richesse, de confort, de luxe même et, surtout, de rationalité, la furie de dérégulation, l’explosion des inégalités, l’abandon des solidarités l’ont peu à peu associé à celle de décision arbit

After the bank bail-outs neoliberalism has, in every sense, been discredited. That is not to say that neoliberalism has disappeared overnight; on the contrary, its assumptions continue to dominate political economy, but they do so now no longer as part of an ideological project that has a confident forward momentum, but as inertial, undead defaults

Ce qui ressemble à du cynisme de la part de Cortney est en fait conforme à l’approche néolibérale de l’école de Genève sur la question des droits de l’homme dans les années post-1945. Plutôt que de rejeter catégoriquement les droits de l’homme et le droit international, la tendance néolibérale consiste à remettre en cause leur interprétation social