Sublime

If our reasoning is correct, the nation-state will be replaced by new forms of sovereignty, some of them unique in history, some reminiscent of the city-states and medieval merchant republics of the premodern world. What was old will be new after the year 2000. And what was unimaginable will be commonplace. As the scale of technology plunges,

The first development is the fragmenting of the global economy.

This history of neoliberalization and class formation, and the proliferating acceptance of the ideas of the Mont Pelerin Society as the ruling ideas of the time, makes for interesting reading when placed against the background of counter-arguments laid out by Karl Polanyi in 1944 (shortly before the Mont Pelerin Society was established). In a

Pour décrire la forme particulière des droits promue par les néolibéraux, j’emprunte à Hayek son expression de « droits du xenos ». Dans son dernier ouvrage publié, il évoque l’institution du xenos, ou ami-invité, dans la Grèce ancienne, « qui assurait l’admission et la protection de l’individu à l’intérieur d’un territoire étranger ». Selon Hayek,

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

Where Balibar, as a consequence, sees our inconvertible cruelty as always about to undermine our politics, and our confidence in politics, Wendy Brown sees neoliberalism – which she defines in Undoing the Demos as ‘a peculiar form of reason that configures all aspects of existence in economic terms’ – as ‘quietly undoing basic elements of

our standard historical meta-narrative about the ambivalent progress of human civilization, where freedoms are lost as societies grow bigger and more complex – was invented largely for the purpose of neutralizing the threat of indigenous critique.

L’élargissement du principe démocratique dans l’organisation de l’OIC correspond à un moment de révolte contre les imaginaires partagés de la Société des nations et de la Chambre de commerce internationale (CCI) tels qu’ils s’étaient exprimés à la Conférence économique mondiale de 1927. Fini le temps où seul le principe de l’intégration négative

Yet in North America, raising the alarm about the fact that we have outsourced the management of our critical informational pathways to algorithms run by for-profit companies, working hand in glove with governments, somehow became the terrain of the Bannonite political right, which points to a dangerous ceding of ideological territory.