The Kingdom, the Power, the Glory, and the Tawdry
Neoliberal Hegemony and the “Undoing” of the Demos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23036005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl Raschke (0000-0003-0405-8878, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 40-61 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2364-2807 • E-ISSN: 2365-3140 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.14220/23642807-00402004 |
| OpenAlex | W2914192468 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article explores Giorgio Agambenscelebrated "double paradigmofsovereignty", which introduces the Christian idea of oikonomia ("economy")asafoundational political concept in Western thinking. It argues that Agambensf ar-ranging discussion improves our understanding of how Foucaultsn otion of biopowera ctually develops historically from the matrix of earlyChristian theology and how it becomes its own kind of "political theology" to undergird the contemporarydynamics,structure,and rhetoricof neoliberalism. FollowingA gamben, the argument also builds on his thesis that "economic sovereignty" today is cemented through the power of modern forms of media in much the same way that the critical theorists of the interwar period identified the "culture industry" as the genuine hegemon of capitalism. Finally, it devotes extensive attention to the work of the French social philosopher and media theorist Bernard Stiegler and his notion of "cognitive capitalism."
Demise · Glory · Hegemony · Kingdom · Physics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Undoing · Gender Studies · Geology · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |