The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11
The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11
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Abstract
The Iconoclastic Imagination offers a new interpretation of neoliberalism by considering it as a social imaginary. Locating the emergence of the neoliberal imaginary in the United States at the conjunction of those catastrophic “where-were-you-when?” events that have punctuated American life every fifteen years or so since the Kennedy Assassination and the rise of free-market economics in social philosophy and public policy, the book argues that the neoliberal imaginary entails a discourse of transcendence that appeals to invisible, unrepresentable orders as the overarching means of organizing and safeguarding society. Neoliberalism, as such, tapped into iconoclastic theologies, aesthetic ideologies, and longstanding arguments and anxieties within the liberal tradition about the status and significance of representation in society. Neoliberalism would significantly inform and invigorate Cold War discourses about society, economy, security, and nationhood, especially in its appeal to impersonal and invisible mechanisms for ordering society. By following neoliberalism beyond economic theory and public policy into a broader social imaginary, The Iconoclastic Imagination shows how neoliberalism offers a distinct way of imagining social existence, reflected especially in and around discourses of disaster, and energized by political and aesthetic anxieties that were at once longstanding in Europe and America and peculiar to the tensions of the Cold War.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part I Image
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Part II Catastrophe
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Part III Economy
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End Matter
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