Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on Bandcamp, Facebook and the Free Music Archive.
Neil Vallelly is a political and social theorist, and the author of Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness.
His research has appeared in journals such as Rethinking Marxism, Angelaki, and Poetics Today, and magazines, including New Internationalist and ROAR. He is also a researcher for the think tank Economic and Social Research Aotearoa.
In 2022, he will take up a two-year Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Otago, working on a history of neoliberalism and migrant detention.
Further information:
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Economic and Social Research Aotearoa
EPISODE RESOURCES
Neoliberalism Renders Us Powerless — and Blames Us for It
by Matt McManus
Jacobin
It’s the Economic Precarity, Stupid
by Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback
The Nation
If you keep putting work before health and happiness, you may be suffering from internalized capitalism
by Alia E. Dastagir
USA TODAY
Mental Health Challenges Related to Neoliberal Capitalism in the United States
by Anna Zeira
Community Mental Health Journal
Neoliberalism can reduce well-being by promoting a sense of social disconnection, competition, and loneliness
by Julia C. Becker, Lea Hartwich and S. Alexander Haslam
British Journal of Social Psychology
Long hours make bad neighbors
by Anna North
Vox
The History of Utilitarianism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
David Graeber Was Right: A Debt Free World Is Possible
by Andrew Ross
Novara Media
Universities after Neoliberalism: How to Build a Democratic Civic University
by Ira Harkavy and Rita A. Hodges
Nonprofit Quarterly
COVID-19 and the Future of UBI: Interview with David Kim
by Nikolai Schweber
Berkeley Political Review
Universal basic income and covid-19 pandemic
by Salil B Patel and Joel Kariel
British Medical Journal
How Capitalism Forces Us to Commodify Our Personal Lives
by Jordinna Joaquin
Lithium Magazine
Personal Branding
by David Rosen
CounterPunch
What is commoning and why is it so important?
by Winne van Woerden
Commons Network
Commoning: a different way of living and acting together
by Johannes Euler and Leslie Gauditz
Degrowth.info
MORE BY NEIL VALLELLY
Rejecting the existential futility of neoliberal life
ROAR
PERC Book Launch: Futilitarianism
Political Economy Research Centre (Video)
The futilitarian condition
This is Hell! (Podcast)
Neoliberalism and the production of uselessness
A World to Win with Grace Blakeley (Podcast)
Futilitarianism – What’s the Point?
RNZ (Audio)
The coronavirus decade: post-capitalist nightmare or socialist awakening?
ROAR
Counting the Cost: COVID-19 and the Crisis of Utilitarianism
Rethinking Marxism
The Place was not a Place
in The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places, Erik Champion (ed.)
Routledge
(Non-)Belief in Things: Affect Theory and a New Literary Materialism
in Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice, Stephen Ahern (ed.)
Palgrave Macmillan
The border and the pandemic
Forum on COVID-19 Pandemic