What Was Neoliberalism?

The pandemic’s pressure on frayed and fragile global systems, driving them to the breaking point; the Trump presidency’s trail of broken norms; epochal events real and imagined, from the George Floyd Uprising to the return of inflationary economics. Is it any wonder that people are wondering whether neoliberalism has finally given way? And the accompanying question: why does it matter whether one has a verdict on the actual character of an era, and on whether it is ending? What are the political stakes of periodization, what was neoliberalism, what now? No answers will be provided; we promise.
Joshua Clover, Sarah Brouillette, Nikhil Pal Singh, Jamie Merchant