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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Neoliberal Immaterialism

The devastating delusion of neoliberal immaterialism ultimately plays out in its fervent disavowals, first of the very material bodies and lifeways of the planetary Precariat that are obliterated in the supposedly frictionless flows of informal-informational capital, second, of very material bombs and bullets of neoconservative militarism that indispensably compel and enforce the adherence of the planetary Precariat to the supposedly "free trade" of disinformed, duressed, vacuous-voluntary libertarianism, and third of the very material metabolic limits and geophysical conditions of a precarious Planet wounded, potentially beyond healing, by human enterprises driven by fantasies of infinite growth, infinite profit, infinite resources, infinite exploitation, infinite waste, infinite gratification, infinite willfulness.

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