moral depletion diagnosis, 189ru6
morphings: of antiwar messages into content flow, 20; of content into opinion, 21; as enactments ofbecoming, 8; of imaginary identities, $6 6 - 6 7 ,$ 73; of message into contribution, 26- 28
Morrow, Lance, 99-100, 189m9
Moufe, Chantal, 13-14, 186n64
Mount Pelerin Society, 52
MoveOn, 46-47
Munck, Ronalda, 68, 183n9
Muselmann figure, 135
music file sharing, 36-37
MySpace, 4, 17, 31
Nader, Ralph, 2
Napster, 36-37
nation: as zero institution, 43· See also state
Nation (magazine), 19, 123
National .Association ofEvangelicals, 109
National Information Infrastructure Act (1993), 36
National Welfare Rights Organization, 181n24
Negri, Antonio, 65-66
N�iman, Susan, 189ru7
Nelson, Ted, 36
neoliberalism: benefits of, 3-4; as constructivist project, 182n1; crhninal justice in, 71-72; democracies' protection of, 76; d<sub>�</sub>velopment of, 51-53, 183n7; erasure of alternatives to, 49, 53, 55; ethics of generosity as response to, 123-24; fantasy of, 49-51, 55-62, 72; governmentality in, 63 -72; implementation of, 52-55; inequalities occluded in, 28, 57, 62; left's acceptance of, 9, 15-16, 33-35, 77; strengthened in communicative capitalism, 47-49, 119-20; symbolic norms
replaced by imaginary ideals in, 66- 67, 73; technological structure of, 23; universals argued in, 16. See also economic neoliberalization; free trade; global neoliberal capitalism
Netherlands: food safety debate in, 45 networked communications media: amplifcation and intensification of, 31-32, 93; denial and exclusion inherent in,, $\mathbf { 4 1 - 4 2 } ;$ fantasy of abundance and, 25-27; f�tasy of wholeness as animating, 42-45; growth and preferential attachment in, 29-30; implications of, 4, 17; inequalities of structure in, 28-30; navigational differences in, 43; neoliberalism strengthened in, 47-48; particular global as produced in, 45; political empowerment via, 36-42; political participation juxtaposed to, 23-24; political trauma covered over by, 35- 36; presumed left orientation of, 147; proliferation, expansion, and intensifcation of, 22-23; psychotic's need for recognition met by, 167-69; in repressive regimes, 93; resistance via, 24j revelation and openness touted for, 148; role of alternative, 17.2-75. See also communicative capitalism; contributions; democratic rhetoric; specifc media outlets
New York City: 1975 fiscal crisis in, 183n9; poll about 9 I 11 in, 145
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 72, 125
9 l 11 Commission, 170
9 I 11 Commission Report, 154
9 In truth movement: Bush's certainty compared with, 169-71; certainty and skepticism combined in, 150-51, 154- 55; conflict over, 146-48; decline of symbolic eficiency and, 165-66; diverse participants in, 158-6o; divisions in, 160- 62; facts asserted in,
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