FLSF Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Ali Rıza TAŞKALE

Konular:Beşeri Bilimler, Ortak Disiplinler

Anahtar Kelimeler:Neoliberalism,Political imaginary,Free-market,Security,Biopolitics,Techno-optimism

Özet: What is a neoliberal imaginary and how is it constituted? How does it foreclose alternative future imaginaries? This article explores a better conceptualisation of what I call ‘the political imaginary of neoliberalism’, that is the images, presuppositions, cultural apparatuses, and other modes of control and representation through which neoliberalism has established and maintains a hegemonic position. It seeks to demonstrate that neoliberalism should not be understood only as an economic doctrine but as a comprehensive framework, a truly political imaginary, that shapes, structures but also restrains how we see and understand ourselves, the social reality we live in and what we imagine as possible. The political imaginary of neoliberalism delineates who can credibly intervene in public debates, whose knowledge is accepted as authoritative, what type of arguments are accepted, and hence, whose perspectives are included and excluded in politics. The main contention of the article is that neoliberalism has a political imaginary, which is specifically shaped by free market policies. This is a process in which politics operates according to a single economic logic, a violent process in which free market appeared to become an unquestionable, naturalised background.

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