This talk is part of a larger political theoretical exploration of neoliberalism and de-democratization.  In this piece, I consider the imbrication of neoliberal reason with a form of governance that now circulates fluidly between public and private sectors, and between knowledge, business, and administration.  I also consider how law may become an instrument of such governance.   I will argue that neoliberal norms become uniquely difficult to identify or contest when they are buried in the anti-political idiom of governance and "best practices."

Speaker: Wendy Brown, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.

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