The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture After 1968 - Hardcover

by Guillaume Collett (Editor), Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (Editor), Iain MacKenzie (Author)

In the wake of new far-right populisms, the fragmentation of progressive global narratives and the dismantling of economic globalization, there are signs that neoliberalism is beginning to enter its death throes. Using 1968 as one of the inaugural moments of neoliberalism, this interdisciplinary collection is a critical and comparative resource that reexamines the significance and legacy of the global 1968 uprisings from today's vantage point. For scholars and students alike, this interdisciplinary collection will help readers understand why the global uprisings of 1968 continue to resonate and what it means for theory and culture today.

Author Biography

Guillaume Collett is an honorary research fellow in the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent and currently based in the University of Malta. He is the author of The Psychoanalysis of Sense: Deleuze and the Lacanian School (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and the editor of Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity (Bloomsbury, 2019). He has edited two special issues and previously co-edited the journal La Deleuziana. Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is a visiting senior lecturer in English at the University of Malta, a research fellow at the University of Kent, and a research assistant in refugee law with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Giappone has published in the areas of digital games, critical theory, and the history of subcultures and is coeditor of Comedy and Critical Thought (Rowman and Littlefield International 2018). Iain MacKenzie teaches political theory at the University of Kent. His research focuses on the nature and scope of critique, and he is coeditor of Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018).