The Demos Undone: Neoliberalism, Democracy, Citizenship

This lecture examines ways in which neoliberal rationality dissolves the figure of the citizen into human capital and erases the figure of the demos altogether. As liberty, equality and universality are inverted into capital appreciation, inequality and competition as this occurs in governance, law, and the principles of public education--what remains of the individual or popular sovereignty at the heart of modern demos-cracy?

Public lecture by Professor Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Professor Brown, who is one of the leading Political Theorists writing today, is visiting the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts. She will talk about her work on wounded attachments, left melancholia, the waning of sovereignty and, most recently, Neoliberalism.

For any enquiries, please contact Dr Mark Devenney