by Elizabeth Humphrys | Dec 9, 2014 | Anti-politics
In November I co-organised (with Tad Tietze) a panel discussion on ‘Anti-politics, social movements & the practical critique of the state’ at the London Historical Materialism Journal conference. It featured three papers (abstracts below) and you can hear the...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Dec 8, 2014 | Anti-politics, Gramsci
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now...
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’,...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Sep 28, 2014 | Neoliberalism
Use of the term ‘neoliberalism’ is widespread in the social sciences. While debates have raged since the 2008 economic crisis as to whether neoliberalism persists or has faltered, many argue it remains ‘the mode of existence of contemporary capitalism’ (Saad-Filho...
