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Two subnarratives in the neoliberal citizenship story are that there is
not enough public money to pay for social programs and that taxation
to fund social programs is unacceptable. /…/ This narrative creates the
economic citizen, obedient to the market and policies that create mar-
ket-friendly environments where there were once spheres of publicness
in the full sociocultural sense” (Schultz, 2013: p. 99).
Lynette Schultz further on calls for a new citizenship, which requires
“/…/ the individual to be both the creator and the subject of the publicness
of society” (ibid.: p. 106). As far as the American Dream is concerned, this
means that we are back to the square one: the individual pursuing happi-
ness! However, in the meantime there was women’s liberation movement.
References
Adorno, T. W., Horkheimer, M. (2002) Dialectic of Enlightenment, Philo-
sophical Fragments. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Barthes, R. (2013) How to Live Together. Novelistic Simulation of Some
Everyday Spaces. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cardullo, B. (2004) In Search of Cinema. McGill-Queens University press.
Cavell, S. (1994) A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises. Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, London: Harvard University Press.
Cavell, S. (2003) Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes. Stanford: Stanford Uni-
versity Press.
Cavell, S. (1981) Pursuits of Happiness. The Hollywood Comedy of Remar-
riage. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Deleuze, G., Guattari, F. (1983) Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophre-
nia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Eagleton, T. (1991) Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso Books.
Ghosh, C. (2013) The Politics of the American Dream: democratic inclusion
in contemporary American political culture. New York: Palgrave Mac-
millan.
Hilgers, M. (2013) Embodying neoliberalism: thoughts and responses to crit-
ics. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 21(1), pp. 75–89.
Hobsbawm, E. & Ranger, T. (ed.). (1983) The Invention of Tradition. Cam-
bridge University Press.
Jacoby, R. (1994) Dogmatic Wisdom. How the Culture Wars Divert Educa-
tion and Distract America. New York: Doubleday.
Lasch, Ch. (1991) The Culture of Narcissism, American Life in an Age of Di-
minishing Expectations. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Two subnarratives in the neoliberal citizenship story are that there is
not enough public money to pay for social programs and that taxation
to fund social programs is unacceptable. /…/ This narrative creates the
economic citizen, obedient to the market and policies that create mar-
ket-friendly environments where there were once spheres of publicness
in the full sociocultural sense” (Schultz, 2013: p. 99).
Lynette Schultz further on calls for a new citizenship, which requires
“/…/ the individual to be both the creator and the subject of the publicness
of society” (ibid.: p. 106). As far as the American Dream is concerned, this
means that we are back to the square one: the individual pursuing happi-
ness! However, in the meantime there was women’s liberation movement.
References
Adorno, T. W., Horkheimer, M. (2002) Dialectic of Enlightenment, Philo-
sophical Fragments. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Barthes, R. (2013) How to Live Together. Novelistic Simulation of Some
Everyday Spaces. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cardullo, B. (2004) In Search of Cinema. McGill-Queens University press.
Cavell, S. (1994) A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises. Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, London: Harvard University Press.
Cavell, S. (2003) Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes. Stanford: Stanford Uni-
versity Press.
Cavell, S. (1981) Pursuits of Happiness. The Hollywood Comedy of Remar-
riage. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Deleuze, G., Guattari, F. (1983) Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophre-
nia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Eagleton, T. (1991) Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso Books.
Ghosh, C. (2013) The Politics of the American Dream: democratic inclusion
in contemporary American political culture. New York: Palgrave Mac-
millan.
Hilgers, M. (2013) Embodying neoliberalism: thoughts and responses to crit-
ics. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 21(1), pp. 75–89.
Hobsbawm, E. & Ranger, T. (ed.). (1983) The Invention of Tradition. Cam-
bridge University Press.
Jacoby, R. (1994) Dogmatic Wisdom. How the Culture Wars Divert Educa-
tion and Distract America. New York: Doubleday.
Lasch, Ch. (1991) The Culture of Narcissism, American Life in an Age of Di-
minishing Expectations. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
158
