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The absolute authority of market forces would be enshrined as the ultimate source of imperative control, displacing democratic contest and deliberation with an ideology of atomized individuals sentenced to perpetual competition for scarce resources.

increasingly frustrated by what they view as the corrupt, unjust, and climate-endangering actions of older generations.

An increase in top-down management is inherent to all neo-liberal processes, by the way: a neo-liberal organisation invariably creates a non-productive top layer whose main task is to maintain its position by monitoring others, resulting in ever-proliferating rules and regulations. Performance measurement is fostered in the name of ‘transparency’,

Across the West, the old opposition of left versus right has been supplanted by a new polarity of liberal versus populist, but neither appears to be capable of defining a new position except negatively and by demonizing the other.

The charitable organizations also reflected modernity’s demands for certainty, authority, predictability, value, intelligibility, and “progress.” There

Having debunked the tragedy of the commons, they now were trying to direct our attention to what they called the tragedy of the time horizon. Meaning we can’t imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much gets done on their behalf. What we do now creates damage that hits decades later, so we don’t charge ourselves for it, and t

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

The increasingly interpretive, Theoretical analysis of discourses found within Social Justice approaches is a direct reflection of the radical reduction of social injustice.