Introduction

McManus, Matthew

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Introduction

Matthew McManus⁴

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The book is introduced by Dylan De Jong, who focuses on the way this analysis developed in the book can help us understand the novelty of our currently cultural condition. In particular, it examines what is novel about contemporary media and the politics it generates.

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1.
NBC. “Rudy Giuliani: Truth Isn’t Truth.” NBC News, August 19, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CljsZ7lgbtw.
2.
Jane Meyer. “Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All.” New Yorker, June 18, 2016. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all.
3.
Harry G. Frankfurt. On Bullshit (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
4.
Donald Trump. The Art of the Deal (New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1987) at Chapter 2.
5.
Polish Radio. “Blazer About Refugees: Charles Martel Stopped the Muslim Invasion in the 8th Century.” TN 24, June 2017. https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/blaszczak-o-uchodzcach-karol-mlot-zatrzymal-nawale-muzulmanska,748547.html.
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Paul Lendval. Orban: Europe’s New Strongman (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017).
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Paul Lendval. Orban: Europe’s New Strongman (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017).
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Paul Lendval. Orban: Europe’s New Strongman (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017).
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Francis Fukuyama. The End of History and the Last Man (New York, NY: Avon Books, 1992).
10.
Michael Ignatieff. Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan (London, UK: Penguin Books, 2003).
11.
Jürgen Habermas. The Crisis of the European Union: A Response, trans. Ciaran Cronin (Cambridge, MA: Polity, 2012).
12.
Slavoj Zizek. The Parallax View (Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
13.
David Harvey. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996).
14.
Ernesto Laclau. New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (London, UK: Verso Books, 1990).
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Butler’s early work was criticised on these points. See Judith Butler. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (London, UK: Routledge, 1990).
16.
I use the term neoliberalisation here quite loosely to describe a variety of transformations associated with epoch I will? specify the nature of these in more detail later.
17.
Fredric Jameson. “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” New Left Review, Vol. 146, 1984.
18.
Mark Fisher. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2009).
19.
Jean Baudrillard. The Ecstasy of Communication (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotexte, 2012).
20.
Theodor Adorno. The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (London, UK: Routledge, 1991).
21.
Max Weber. The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1958).
22.
See Wendy Brown. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2015) for an account of these post-Recessionary problems.
23.
As I will explain later, the Recession was a catalyst for many of these trends to emerge, not the exclusive or direct cause.
24.
Paul Lendvall. Orban: Europe’s New Strongman (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017).
25.
See Francis Fukuyama. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (New York, NY: Farar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
26.
See Herbert Marcuse. One Dimensional Man (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964).
27.
David Harvey. The Limits to Capital: New and Fully Updated Edition (London, UK: Verso Books, 2006).

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McManus, M. (2020). Introduction. In: The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism. Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24682-2_1

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