In a recent interview for Dissent Magazine, Rafael Khachaturian speaks with Wendy Brown about neoliberalism and the state of the world since the publication of her acclaimed book Undoing the Demos (Zone 2015). Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full piece. An excerpt appears below:

“Published in 2015, Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos was a major theoretical contribution to the study of neoliberalism. Since then, the neoliberal order has been rocked by a series of crises: among them the rise of right-wing, authoritarian regimes across the world; rapidly intensifying ecological devastation; and the COVID-19 pandemic that is now entering its third year. These events have also opened the door to new social movements, both on the left and the right, challenging the political and economic foundations of the previous fifty years.”