The Dig: A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn Slobodian
Jacobin Radio
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What Is Neolibralism?
He believed that we needed to see humans not as a kind of entities that existed in some kind of isolation from the rest of the natural world, but analogously or otherwise. Humans were one of many complex organizing systems within the universe. He was inspired by sibernetics and tried to figure out what negative and positive feedback loops could be built into this system to prevent it being thrown into a disequilibrium. The calculus of capitalism has produced, he says, five billion living souls on the earth whenever it is unavetioned.
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