Wendy Brown

Markets, Morals, and the Neoliberal Assault on Democracy

Conversations, Systems of Enclosure, Transcripts / November 13, 2019

Neoliberals were not only clueless about the extent to which markets never really worked the way they described in their ideal. They were also clueless about the political, social, cultural, and theological ramifications of a radically marketized world in which we have not justice, not democracy, but only winners and losers.

Resisting Left Melancholy

Essays & Analysis, Systems of Enclosure / October 5, 2015

“Heaviness of heart derives from routine. For to be in a routine means to have sacrificed one’s idiosyncrasies, to have forfeited the gift of distaste. And that makes one heavy-hearted.”