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Super-happy to be presenting one of my favourite papers tomorrow - 'What was neoliberalism and what comes next? A political economy of endings', 9.15 AM BST at @CPERN06 Mid-term workshop. Tune in to the live streaming at https://www.facebook.com/events/2820136938114090 https://twitter.com/CPERN06/status/1273597063239000064
The link and Facebook streaming were a bit slow, so I've decided to share some of the slides from today's talk:
My talk addresses some of the epistemological implication of thinking about endings - including, but not limited, the end of neoliberalism. I've addressed some of these in this paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691728.2019.1638990
The title of the talk references Katherine Verdery's 'What ws socialism and what comes next?', published in 1996, which addressed the difficulties of grappling with the 'post-socialist' condition.
The ambiguity of endings is reflected in social sciences and humanities' inability to think without endings; but, at the same time, to think about endings. This ambiguity appears in a number of philosophical and theoretical takes, but also involves interesting political questions
Hannah Arendt's 'Human condition', for instance, frames the genesis of the 'theoretical' stance as oriented towards eternity - which is atemporal, and as such opposed to immortality
(there is an in-between slide that references Jenny Andersson's 'Future of the world' and SM Amadae's 'Prisoners of reason' as genesis of future as a political-epistemic project): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-future-of-the-world-9780198814337?cc=gb&lang=en&
I wholeheartedly recommend reading both https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/prisoners-of-reason/0C3FF0AC512060E6A62A01AC77CCFA71
So how did this Cold War legacy frame the ability to predict events closer to our topic today?
Badly.
What does this mutual determination of epistemic object and epistemics subject - which I address in my paper - tell us about how we are able to 'know' or think about endings?
that's it 
