Welcome to the `All-American' Fun House
Hailing the Disciplinary Neo-liberal Non-subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11921407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hasmet M Uluorta (University of Miami, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-265 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Millennium Journal of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-8298 • E-ISSN: 1477-9021 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03058298080360020401 |
| OpenAlex | W1983740661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
How is it possible that neo-liberalism can maintain its supremacy within the United States given present contradictions? In this article, I argue that the basis for this supremacy is consent. Making use of both neo-Gramscian and Lacanian theories, I focus on the potential consenting subject of neo-liberalism, what I refer to as the `All American'. However, this potential consenting subject is not truly a subject per se but an identification that constantly forms and re-forms in the reflective gaze of three signifying mirrors that constitute neoliberalism within the contemporary United States. These mirrors are capitalist-market, religious-moral and nationalist-patriotic. Together, they create the `All-American Funhouse', a site in which identity and desire are dialectically engaged toward the perpetuation of neo-liberal supremacy
Aesthetics · Classical liberalism · Discipline · Identity (music · Liberalism · Nationalism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |