{"id":877,"date":"2010-04-28T22:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2010-04-28T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:55:05","slug":"debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I leave tomorrow for Milwaukee, to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/21st\/conferences\/2010debt\/debtconference.html\">Debt Conference<\/a> sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Milwaukee. \u00c2\u00a0My own talk is about how neoliberal &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1846943175\/dhalgrenstevensh\">capitalist realism<\/a>&#8221; leads to the situation in which, as Deleuze put it, &#8220;a man is no longer\u00c2\u00a0a man confined but a man in debt.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Everything without exception is subject to cost-benefit analysis and enforced competition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of capitalist realism and neoliberal logic &#8212; I can only add my voice to that of others in opposing the idiotic and venal decision to close the philosophy program at Middlesex University &#8212; as recounted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinestatic.com\/infinitethought\/2010\/04\/closure-of-philosophy-at-middlesex.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinestatic.com\/infinitethought\/2010\/04\/email-dean-at-middlesex-to-register.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinestatic.com\/infinitethought\/2010\/04\/msex-philosophy-closure-more-people-and.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I leave tomorrow for Milwaukee, to take part in the Debt Conference sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Milwaukee. \u00c2\u00a0My own talk is about how neoliberal &#8220;capitalist realism&#8221; leads to the situation in which, as Deleuze put it, &#8220;a man is no longer\u00c2\u00a0a man confined but a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Debt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-politics","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}