Near Future Series⁶

Wendy Brown and Michel Feher, Series Editors

Reckoning with the epochal nature of the turn that capitalism has taken in the last three decades, the Near Futures series seeks to assemble a set of books that will illuminate its manifold implications—with regard to the production of value and values, the missions or disorientations of social and political institutions, the yearnings, reasoning, and conduct expected of individuals. The purpose of this project is not to forgo the near future but to find ways of reclaiming it. It is an effort to take stock of what neoliberal reforms and the dictates of finance have wrought, as well as to chart some of the conflicts and forms of activism elicited by the advent of our brave new world.

Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South Quinn Slobodian, Dieter Plehwe, Esra Elif Nartok, Aditya Balasubramanian, Tobias Rupprecht, Isabella M. Weber, Antina von Schnitzler, Jeremy Walker, Paulo Chamon, Karin Fischer, Mila Jonjic, Nenad Pantelic, Lars Mjøset, Reto Hofmann, and Jimmy Casas Klausen
Edited by Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe
A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South
Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation Michel Callon
Edited by Martha Poon
Translated by Olivia Custer
Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism Melinda Cooper
Why was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a profound influence on American political life? Why have free-market neoliberals so...
Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age Michel Feher
Translated by Gregory Elliott
The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing...
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution Wendy Brown
Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when this rationality transposes...
Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction Ivan Ascher
As financial markets expand and continue to refashion the world in their own image, the wealth of capitalist societies no longer presents itself as it did to Karl Marx in the nineteenth century, as a “monstrous collection of...