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How the World Swung to the Right

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>From Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
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  How the World Swung to the Right


    Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions

By François Cusset <https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/francois-cusset>

Translated by Noura Wedell

An examination of the reactionary, individualist, cynical, and
belligerent shift in global politics to the right, implemented both by
the right and the establishment left.

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Paperback
$14.95 T ISBN: 9781635900163 176 pp. | 7 in x 4.5 in July 2018


      Summary

*An examination of the reactionary, individualist, cynical, and
belligerent shift in global politics to the right, implemented both by
the right and the establishment left.*

Systemic, euphemized, insidious and structural violence has increased.
It is now objectively measurable by the gulf in revenues, by subjective
malaise, or by the menace of ecological apocalypse, and also by their
constant exacerbation.—from /How the World Swung to the Right/

Despite a few zones of active resistance—the alter-globalization
movement, the Chiapas uprisings, the Arab springs, and the recent
resistance to racialized police brutality and environmental and
genocidal warfare in the United States—the last half-century has been
witness to an undeniable global shift to the right. /How the World Swung
to the Right/ provides a comprehensive overview of this reactionary,
individualist, cynical, and belligerent shift, which often has been
cloaked in the guise of entertainment and good intentions. The
counterrevolutions began with a first phase of deregulation and
ideological counter-attacks, and the fall of the so-called “real”
communisms. The 1990s inaugurated a global biopolitical turn and the
financialization of the economy; the 2000s hammered in neoliberal gains
through the alliance of ultraliberalism with neoconservatism. These
policies were implemented, surprisingly, not only by the right but often
by the establishment left. Cusset argues that in the face of this
betrayal, conflict is the one thing we can still salvage from the notion
of the “left.” What we need today, he contends, are new sites of
conflict that multiply the causes of struggle and the sites of
mobilization, linking socioeconomic struggle with questions of identity
and the urgency of ecology.


      Authors


        François Cusset

François Cusset is Professor of American Studies at the University of
Paris-Ouest Nanterre, François Cusset is a writer and intellectual
historian. A specialist in contemporary intellectual and political
history, he is the author of /French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida,
Deleuze, & Co Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States/
and /The Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics in America/.

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