onoptikonJul 1, 2025
From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy
homovictimusJul 1, 2025
From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy
Mark CarriganJun 3, 2024

To act in, to engage with, a world of plural choices is to opt for alternatives, given that the signposts established by tradition now are blank.

Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/06/03/in-late-modernity-the-signposts-established-by-traditio-are-now-blank/

#anthonyGiddens #detraditionalization #lateModernity #london