Bourdieu. Pierre Bourdieu.

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I need to reread it, but it generally made sense. It seems a bit obvious to say different fields interact with one another to present a world though.

 

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Whenever I see a photo of him I think it's Lionel Barber, former editor of the Financial Times.

 

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I'll read Distinction eventually

 

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The essence of neoliberalism

Open access // by Pierre Bourdieu (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, December 1998)

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In the name of this scientific programme, converted into a plan of political action, an immense political project is underway, although its status as such is denied because it appears to be purely negative. This project aims to create the conditions under which the “theory” can be realised and can function: a programme of the methodical destruction of collectives.

 

[luka]

Craner says neoliberalism doesn't exist.

 

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Craner says neoliberalism doesn't exist.

 

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Craner says neoliberalism doesn't exist.

It does seem to be a term which gets chucked at all sorts of things these days, to the point of perhaps being meaningless. The article's from 1998 though and I think it's describing something real, whether you want to call it neoliberalism or not.