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Neoliberalism, the Security State, and the Quantification of Reality (Hardcover)
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Neoliberalism, the Security State, and the Quantification of Reality (Hardcover)
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As the security state grows in power and dominance, commercial and
financial interests increasingly penetrate our social existence.
Neoliberalism, the Security State, and the Quantification of
Reality addresses the relationship between these two trends in its
discussion of neoliberalism, financialization, and managerialism,
with a particular focus on the decline of professionalism, the
restructuring of tertiary education, and the university's
abandonment of the humanities. Additionally, David Lea links these
developments with the failings of democratic institutions, the
growth of the disciplinary society, and the emergence of the
security state, which relentlessly governs by extraordinary fiat
dividing, disempowering and excluding. Lea identifies one such
linkage inthe common form of rationality, which underlies
contemporary approaches to reality. Others have noted that one of
the most notable political developments of the last thirty years or
so has been increasing public and governmental demand for the
quantification of social phenomena. Moreover, A.W. Crosby has
attributed Europe's unprecedented imperial success, which began in
early European Modernity, to a paradigmatic shift from a
qualitative world view grounded in Platonic and Neo-Platonic
idealism to a more quantitative world view. Nevertheless, this
quantitative approach towards the natural and social worlds
alienates humans from other species and even from ourselves and
fails to represent life as we actually experience it. While a
quantitative world view may have facilitated imperial success and
the interlocking exercise of power and authority by the state and
the economically empowered, this instrumental form of thinking
rationales, strategies and facilitates policies that restrict and
vitiate individual autonomy to create a seamless controlled
conformity. This form of thinking that relies on the quantification
of natural and social phenomena creates a value free equivalency,
which at the same time invidiously divides society into the wealthy
and the impoverished, the advantaged and the exploited, the
politically included and the excluded.
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