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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Neil Vallelly Image

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:
Academia.edu  
Twitter
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