--- schema_version: "library-reader-v1" source_type: "original_book" title: "Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics" author: null edition: null publisher: null year: null isbn: null library_document_id: "e38ef66b-e3ac-494b-b5ea-9cc05b2975d8" source_sha256: "569b98cf47059b34d9ea0cd28116e2c02cc6e5dc1d526cdff92bd1ecb4c3c702" pdf_physical_page_count: 229 pdf_physical_page_index_base: 0 range_start: 220 range_count: 9 html_url: "https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/e38ef66b-e3ac-494b-b5ea-9cc05b2975d8?start=220&limit=10" markdown_url: "https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/e38ef66b-e3ac-494b-b5ea-9cc05b2975d8.md?start=220&limit=10" previous_url: "https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/e38ef66b-e3ac-494b-b5ea-9cc05b2975d8.md?start=210&limit=10" --- # Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics > 页码规则：PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX 是从 0 开始的权威文件物理页索引；PRINTED_PAGE 是页面中识别出的印刷页码，可能为空，二者不得混用。 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=220 | PRINTED_PAGE=210 Information and Infrastructure Technology Act (1993), 36 Inhofe, James, 153 institutions. See civil institutions; global zero institution; labor unions International Monetary Fund, 54 Internet: Bush's removal of documents from, 149; characteristic uses of, 43- 44; fantasy of abundance and, 25-26; inequalities of structure in, 28-30; interpassivity on, 31, 37-38; linkg practices on, 44-45; mass mobilizing via, 4 7-48; neoliberal perspective on, 56; 9 / 11 truth videos on, 155-58; political empowerment via, 36-42; as public's preferred news source, 145- 46; second opinions via, 64; value of abundance vs. scarcity and, 179- 8onn; as zero institution, 42-45. See also bloggers and blogging; contributions; networked communications media interpassivity concept, 31, 37-38 Iran: in Bush's axis of evil, 951 97, 118-19, 121, 188-89n9 Iraq: in Bush's axis of evil, 95, 97, 118"-191 121, 188-89n9 Iraq War: Abu Ghraib prison and, 72, 134; analysis of, 19-20, 140; Bush's mission accomplished speech on, 118-19; Bush's persistence in justifying, 10, 25, 81-83; condemnation of, 141; democratic theory on run-up to, 81-92; fake news about, 8; opposition to, 46, 81- 86, 93; public deception in, 15 Israel: criticism against, 129 Jackson, Henry M., 191043 Jeferson, Thomas, 106-7 Johnson, Lyndon B., 106-7 Jones, Steven E., 158- 61 J orke, Dirk, 77 Journal of 9 I 11 Studies, 158 justice: democracy's inability to represent, 76; personal freedom vs. social, 33-34; preemptive, 71-72. See also criminal justice system Kane, Tim, 69 Kant, Immanuel, 135 Kennedy, John F., 105-6, 145, 158 Keynesianism: criminal justice in, 71- 72; demise of, 54-55; necessities for consumption in, 68; regulatory emphasis in, 52-53; symbolic identities in, 66- 67, 73· See also welfare state King, Samanth� 6 I�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, 212 INDEX ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=223 | PRINTED_PAGE=213 149- so; Internet circulation and, 155- 58; made-it-happen-on-purpose (MIHOP) and let-it-happen-onpurpose (LIH OP) segments o£ 146; power and passivity underlying, 171- 72; public opinion poll and, 145; stigmatization o£ 152-54, 159- 60; university discourse linked to, 151-52, 158 - 62, !68-69 Nixon, Richard M., 107, 190n37 No Child Left Behind, 71 57 North Korea: in Bush's axis of evil, 95, 971 118-19, 121, 188- 89n9 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), 106 Obama, Barack, 9 obscenity: evil compared with, 121 O PEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 53 Operation Northwoods, 157 Oxford Union Society, 111-12, 114 Palley, Thomas, 183n7 Pareto, Vilfredo, 29 Pariser, Eli, 46 Passavant, Paul A, 63, 67-68, 71, 131 peer-to-peer file sharing and networks, 36-37. See also networked communications media People's Computer Company, 36 ,Perelman, Michael, 34 performative contradiction concept, 100, 189-90021 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996), 35 pervert discourse: Bush as example o£ 84-87; Bush's vacuous resolve in, 114-20; concept o£ 79- 80; other's wil in, 187n21 Phillips, Kevin, 153 Pink Bloc, 181n27 Plame, Valerie, 15 political action and participation: computer use figured as, 36- 42; consumer choices as, 6, 34-35; Internet vs. local settings o£ 31-33, 49; media proliferation juxtaposed to, 23 ·- 24; possibility for resistance in, 24; voter turnout, 1, 17, 179n34 political demonology concept, 188n5 political trauma concept, 35-36 politicization: approach to project o£ .16; raising individual to universal in, 14-16. See also depoliticization diagnosis; left (political); right (political) politics: circulation of content vs. oficial policy, 20- 21; communicative acts as, 32-33; consensus of reality presumed in, 14 7; demonization in, 188ns; denial o£ 123-24; of disclosure, 38-39; displaced onto everyday, 39-40; divisions necessary for, 75-76; failures of, 11-12; frustrations with electoral, 2; language of evil in, 100-101, 189m6; party identification in, 1, 17702; religious invocations in, 97-99; social construction in, 7-8; structure of address and condemnation in, 136-42; tinknowingness as conditioning, 142-43. See also elections ( 2ooo-2008); left (political); post-politics; right (political) Pollin, Robert, 54-55 p opularity: circular claims o£ 22; subjectivization o£ 177n8 Popular Mechanics (magazine), 154 postdemocracy concept, 10-11 Poster, Mark, 179-8onu, 182n33 postideology claim, 4 7 postmodernism: in corporate capitalism, 8-9; evil linked to, 188n8; as ideological, 97; political triumph o£ 7- 8. See also relativism post-politics: concept o£ 10-12; as exclusion of political, 13 - 16; as ideal of inclusion and consensus, 13-14 poverty. See inequalities INDEX 213 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=224 | PRINTED_PAGE=214 Powell, Colin, 118 power: communicative capitalism as protecting and immunizing, 119–20; evil, secret ty pe of, 117–18; failure to take responsibility for, 181n27; governmentality and dispersion of, 125– 28; governmentality and extension of, 130-31; self-production and excess of, 171–72; of technology fetishism, 41– 42; victims of, vs. claims of, s–6 power-law degree distributions, 29-30 private property ideas, 36–37 privatization: communicative deluge linked to, 23; governments' adoption of, 54-55; realities of, 56–57 psychosis: belief displaced by, 171–72; crisis of symbolic investiture linked to, 162, 164–65; Jacques Lacan on, 151–52, 162, 166–69; need for recognition in, 167–69; normal actions compared with, 166-68; role of media and, 172-75 psychotic discourse: emergence of, 168– 69. See also 9/11 truth movement Radio B92 (Serbia), 24 Ranciere, Jacques, 13–14, 178n24 Rawls, John, 13, 82 Reagan, Ronald: on evil, 15–16, 95–96, 108–14, 191nn43-45; movie career of, 191n48; neoliberalism of, 52-54; political demonology of, 188ns; realism of, 111−13 reality: of Bush, 64–65, 88, 90; change in status of, 64–65; in communicative capitalism, 56–57, 147–48; imaginary in alliance with, 113-14; media based in, 64–65, 88; presumed in politics, 147; psychotic rejection of, 166–67; of Reagan, 111–13 registration effect, 31 relativism: absolutist conviction combined with, 95–96, 120–21; evil and, 100; as ideological, 97. See also postmodernism religious discourse: Bush's vacuous resolve and, 116–20; freedom in, 105; neoliberalism supplemented by, 60, 184n29; pluralism of, 98–99; prominence in United States, 97–98; public/private and, 104, 113; Puritan jeremiad in, 101; Reagan's approach to evil and, 109–12, 191n44 religious right: Coulter's view of, 189nı1; disagreements among, 98–99; prominence in United States, 97–98. See also evangelical Christianity resignification and reappropriation: potential of, 127; sovereignty and, 128-36 resistance: of Bush to exchange of reasons, 85–87; lost when enemies accept one's terms, 9–10; via networked communications media, 24 responses. See êssages revolution: use of term, 32, 101 Revolution Church (Manitou Spring), 60, 185n32 Reynolds, Morgan, 161 rhizome metaphor, 30 Rice, Condoleezza, 151, 157, 188–89n9 Rich, Frank, 8 right (political): critical account of, 153; democratic rhetoric of, 75; elections read as triumph of, 2–5; ethics of generosity as response to, 123-24; left's views of, 1–2, 5; politicization by 14–16; postmodernism and, 8, 97; Reagan's realism praised by, 112-13; revolution claimed by, 32, 101; on taking human life, 135. See also religious right rights discourse, 5 Rogers, Richard, 44–45 Rogin, Michael, 108, 188n5, 191n48 214 INDEX ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=225 | PRINTED_PAGE=215 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 101 -3, 105, 114 Rove, Karl, 7-8 Rubenstein, Diane, 187m7, 192nss Rmnsfeld, Donald, 85, 157 Sass en, Saskia, 23, 131-32 scale-free network concept, 29-30 Schmitt, Carl, 13, 148, 187n29 Scholars for 9 In Truth: critique against, 161\_62; diverse participants in, 158- 60; divisions in, 160 - 61; facts asserted by, 149-so Schor, Juliet B., 68 Schreber, Daniel Paul, 164-65, 167-68 September n, 2001: breaking deadlock surrounding, 172- 75; Bush's confused response to, 19, 116-17; condemnation of, 140; discourse of fear and terror after, 96\_99; independent investigation of, 193 -94m6; language of victimization after, 6-7; losses of, 150, 166; neoliberal perspective on, 56; oficial account of, 169-70, 174-75; opinion polls concerning, 145-46; overlap and gap of oficial and conspiracy theories about, 171-72; resignifcations after, 128-30. See also 9 I 1 truth movement; war on terror Serbia: political resistance in, 24 sexual diference: as zero institution, 43 Shapiro, Michael ]., 100 -101, 188-89n9, 189n16 Shirley, Clay; 40 Shldar, Judith, 192n8 Silverstein, Larry, 157 Simon, Jonathan, 72 singularities (term), 65. See also individual/ singular I personal mindset Smith, Adam, 183n7 socialism, 93 social movements: antiwar, 19-20; civil rights, 15, 106; identities mobilized in, 6s-66; rights discourse of, 5 social networking technology. See networked communications media social order: discipline vs. control in, 65\_66; fantasy of wholeness covering, 38 social solidarity: left's retreat from, 7, 33-35 Somalia: excesses (evil) in, 112 space: consensual, 193n4; symbolic, 64- 65 spectacle: filg desire for, 173- 75; politics of disclosure and, 39· See also September 11, 2001 speech acts: extralegal status of oficial, 130; idealized as sovereign acts, 125- 26; structure or scene of, 136-42. See also contributions; language; messages; resignification and reappropriation; symbolic eficiency, decline of spirituality: neoliberal perspective on, 59\_60. See also religious discourse Spotrunner, 178n16 INDEX 215 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=226 | PRINTED_PAGE=216 state: collusion in neoliberalism, 49-50; fundamental role of, 35; left's retreat from, 33, 35-36; nation as zero institution, 43; regulatory function of, 52, 58-59. See also security Stone, Oliver, 61 Storms, Sam, 6o subjects and subjectivization: address and self�accounts of, 136-42; celeb� rity and conspiracy modes of, 177n8; as enjoined to enjoy, 66-67, 731 128, 132-34; inconsistencies and respon� sibilities of, 142-43; passivity of, 169- 70; psychotic vs. normal, 166-68; registration efect and, 31; speech acts and, 126-27; symbolic investiture of, 162, 164-65 Sudan: excesses (evil) in, 112 Sumers, Lawrence, 129 Sunstein, Cass R, 181-82n31 Suskind, Ron, 64-65 symbolic eficiency, decline of: anxieties and domination in, 132-33; certainty, skepticism, and, 162-64; concept of, 63-67, 127-28; cdsis of investiture in context of, 1621 164-65; evil vs. good and, 113-14; paranoid psychosis in context of, 162, 166-69; unkowi:D.gness and, i42-43 technology fetishism: failures ofleft and, 33-38; MoveOn as exemplar of, 46-47; operational modes of, 38-42; political energies located in, 31- 33· See also media;' networked communications media Telecommunications Act (1996), 36 television: advertising on, 179-8onu; ratings system of, 18om3 Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, 3s Thatcher, Margaret: anti-welfare state policy under, 7, ss; competition precept of, 57; neoliberalism of, 52- 54 third-way thesis, n, 13 Thompson, Dennis: Bush's war justifed b}lj 93; on deliberative democracy, 81- 83, 91-92; on questioning and argument, 84-85; in university discourse context, 87-90, 151 Time (magazine), 158 torture, 72, wo, .134 totalitarianism: as evil, no-141 191nn43- 45 Transportation Security Administration, 7-8 Treanor, Paul, 183n7 Trinity Broadcasting Company, 184n3o Truman, Harry s., 102-S, 114 Turkey: post-World War II assistance for, 103 Turner, Fred, 181n29 United Nations, 112, 114 United States: economi� crisis in 1970s, 53-54; legacy of evil in, 108-1o; as sovereign over international norms, 130 universality and universalization: concept of, 78, 186m; democracy as obstacle to, 77; as terrain of political claims, 22 university discourse: certainty and skepticism combined in, 151; concept of, 8o; deliberative democracy in terms of, 87-92; democracy as radical ideal in, Bo-83; everyday compared with, 77i 9 I 11 movement linked to, 151-52, 158-62, 168-69; on status ofhumanities, 136 unknowingness and unkowability: attunement to, 142-43; in human relations, 136-38 USA Patriot Act (2o01), 131 U.S. Congress, 25, 69, 83 U.S. Constitution, 126 216 INDEX ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=227 | PRINTED_PAGE=217 INDEX U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 7--8 U.S. Department of State, 8, 154 USS Abraham Lincoln, 118-19 U.S. Supreme Court, 131 Vanity Fair (magazine), 156 victims: language o£ 4-10 victim-security matrix, 6-7 Vietnam War, 107 voter turnout, 1, 17, 179n34 Wall Street (film), 61 Wark1 McKenzie, 182n4 7 war on teror: axis-of-evil speech in context o£ u8-19; Bush's ontology of evil in, 119-20; Bush's vacuous resolve in, 116 -17; opposition to, 174- 75; resignifications in1 128-30 ·washington Consensus, 54, 57 wealth concentration1 23-25, 76. See also inequalities; neoliberalism weapons of mass destruction ( WMD s), 19-20, 188-89n9 Web 2.0, 4· See also networked communications media welfare state: competition as rationale against, 57; feminism's failure to fight for, 18o-81n23; left's role in collapse o£ 7, 33-351 101, 181n24; neoliberal dismantling o£ 71 55· See also Keynesianism wholeness: fantasy o£ 381 4·2-45 Wilams1 Armstrong, 7 Wilson, Joseph, 15 Wilson, Kenneth1 29 Wood, JudYi 161 workers and the poor: left's retreat from1 7, 33- 35. See also inequalities; labor unions World Bank1 54 World Trade Center, 157. See also 9 I 11 truth movement; September n, 2001 World Wide Web1 43. See also Internet; networked communications media YouTube, 4, 17, 31, 148 Zelikow, Philip1 151 zero institution, 42-45 Zinn, Howard, 159 Zizek1 Slavoj: on capitalism, 8, 186n6s; on democracy, 76-77; on enjoyment1 so} 132-33J 182n3; on fantasy in ideol-Og}lj 55-58; on four discourses, 79- 8o; on Hegel1 861 188n2; on ideological identifcation, 61--62; on the inhuman, 135; on interpassivit}lj 31; on law, 134; on loss as object, 150; on modes of dreaming, 10; on post-politics1 13- 16; on surplus value, 132-33; on symbolic eficiency decline, 63-67, 127- 28, 162-64, 192n6; on two figures of the master, 117-18; on university discourse, 88; on victory in defeat, 7; on zero institution, 42-43 217 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=228 | PRINTED_PAGE=NOT_DETECTED