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Identifying neoliberal capitalism as an extension and radical transformation of war capitalism, Rogers-Vaughn posits neoliberalization as a highly efficient regime for the global production of suffering and subsequent privatization of death and violence. Rogers-Vaughn explores how contemporary capitalism exacerbates the sufferings of entire populations of people, and shapes the ways we attend to, ignore, or legitimate suffering. Neoliberalization, he concludes, is creating a new third order of suffering that both coexists with and transforms first- and second-order suffering, such that their present forms are more difficult to recognize and address. Rogers-Vaughn draws on Dany-Robert Dufour’s notions of deinstitutionalization, desymbolization, and desubjectivation to demonstrate the weakening and erosion of deep symbols and words of power, and how this erosion compromises human capacity for narration and meaning-making.
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Rogers-Vaughn, B. (2016). Neoliberalism as a Paradigm for Human Affliction: Third-Order Suffering as the New Normal. In: Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age. New Approaches to Religion and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55339-3_4
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