Mobility and Post Democracy: Democracy and Citizenship After the State

Kicking off the Mobility in Post Democracy event series, acclaimed theorist Wendy Brown delivers a keynote address, co-sponsored with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, on mapping the current landscape and possible futures in a post democratic era. Brown explores the transition from the political subject, homo politicus, to the neoliberal and anti-solidaristic homo economicus, and its disastrous implications for the institutions of citizenship, higher education, social justice, and democracy itself.

More on the Mobility and Post Democracy series:

Post Democracy has recently arisen as a complex and contradictory term: for some it promises a new participatory platform for the mobilizing forces of social media, while others lament democracy’s demise as the result of international intervention in domestic politics. Decried as “democratic melancholy,” such skepticism is considered ill placed by yet others for whom “democracy” was never a political system to aspire to.

Under the heading Mobility in Post Democracy, the Vera List Center presents a series of interdisciplinary panels, seminars, and lectures that examine Post Democracy as a condition informed by mobility— across institutions, states, and ideologies. The series brings together an international group of scholars, activists, students, and artists to probe the concept of Democracy.

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