by Elizabeth Humphrys | Nov 18, 2014 | Anti-politics
Tad Tietze and I originally wrote “Anti-politics: Elephant in the room” on Left Flank just over a year ago, and we were trying to summarise the changes in our thinking over the causes and consequences of the “crisis of representation” that the blog had been focused on...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Nov 1, 2014 | Australian History, Neoliberalism
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine (2007) is one of the most widely read critical accounts of neoliberalism. Klein argues that governments have used ‘disasters’ of various kinds to implement neoliberal policies. Transformation occurs through ‘eventful temporality’,...