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In The Double Binds of Neoliberalism, the authors provide a detailed and astute unveiling of our contemporary dilemma. Neoliberalism has proven itself adept at offering a false sense of progress by mimicking (but not offering) many of the demands that came from the late 60s in terms of racial, gender and sexual justice. In doing so, Neoliberalism has effectively separated political and economic forms of determination--commandeering the product of work for their own purposes. This is the double bind of the title: fake moves towards negative freedoms based on identity with a concomitant usurpation of positive, economic freedoms at the same time. The double bind means that leftist modes of organizing and fomenting change are readily coopted by neoliberalism to further reaction and the accumulation of capital by the 1%. If you want to read a volume that explains exactly how we got into the mess we are in and learn how many leftist solutions are bound to fail from the get-go (although these authors do give a sense of new and better directions to go in), this is the book for you.--James Martel, San Francisco State University Uniformly insightful and provocative, the essays of this volume take up the multiple and still very much undecided legacies of the events of May 1968 in order to engage the contemporary problems and practical deadlocks of critique and collective action today. In a global context wherein the possibilities of radical change unlocked by 1968 have often been re-appropriated by dominant strands of neo-liberal individualism and capitalism, the authors bring out in multiple ways the suggestive and unsettled potentials for liberation and transformation that still lie concealed within that moment's promise of new forms of political and social organization at a distance from both party and state. For its insightful critical analyses and acute sensitivity to the contradictions of the present, the book will be eagerly sought out by those who, in the face of the global retrenchment of capitalism and dominant forms of subject formation and state power, nevertheless can still hear today the call of 1968 to 'be realistic -- demand the impossible!'--Paul Livingston, University of New Mexico

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Guillaume Collett is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent. Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta, a Visiting Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent. Iain MacKenzie is a Reader in Politics at the University of Kent, and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Thought.

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