The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture after 1968

Works in Progress Seminar Series (WIPSS):
The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture after 1968
By Guillaume Collett, Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, and Iain MacKenzie

Date: Tuesday 20 December 2022, 1800 CET
Online via Zoom
To register, please send an email to wipss@um.edu.mt 
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WIPSS Convenors: Peter Mayo, Michael Briguglio, Francois Zammit

Abstract

Guillaume Collett, Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, and Iain MacKenzie, are the editors of the recent volume The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture after 1968.

In the wake of new far-right populisms, the fragmentation of progressive global narratives and the dismantling of economic globalization, there are signs that neoliberalism is beginning to enter its death throes. Using 1968 as one of the inaugural moments of neoliberalism, this interdisciplinary collection is a critical and comparative resource that reexamines the significance and legacy of the global 1968 uprisings from today’s vantage point.

This WIPSS talk will introduce some of the issues identified by the book, and discuss future directions suggested by the volume's authors.

Bios of speakers

Guillaume Collett's research focuses on the works of Deleuze and Guattari as well as on social and political thought more broadly. He is the author of the monograph The Psychoanalysis of Sense: Deleuze and the Lacanian School (2016, Edinburgh University Press) and editor of the book Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity (2019, Bloomsbury). He has co-edited several journal issues including for Deleuze Studies (2012) and was formerly co-editor of the journal La Deleuziana (2015-2021).

Krista is a visiting senior lecturer at the University of Malta. Her work is interdisciplinary, straddling law, the humanities and the social sciences. She has published a monograph, The Punk Turn in Comedy (2018), and co-edited Comedy and Critical Thought (2018), Video Games and Comedy (2022), and The Double Binds of Neoliberalism (2022). She is currently co-authoring a book on precarious labour in higher education with Lena Wånggren.

Iain MacKenzie teaches political theory at the University of Kent. His research focuses on the nature and scope of critique. Recent publications include ‘Critique in the Age of Indifference’ in Theory & Event (2022), Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou (transcript, 2018) and Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018) co-edited with Fred Francis and Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone.