Naslov
The (neo)capitalist hegemony and discourse of "austerity measures" rethinking within Foucault's theory
(The (neo) capitalist hegemony and discourse of "austerity measures" rethinking within Foucault's theory)

Autori
Hromadžić, Hajrudin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Engaging Foucault

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 05.12.2014. - 07.12.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
(neo)capitalism ; hegemony ; discourse ; naturalistic discursive formations

Sažetak
Last great crisis of the capitalist economy which began in 2008 has been accompanied by, among other things, increased production and wide distribution of a specific type of media, public and political narratives. The main function of this discourse is the foundation and justification of the alleged inevitability and imminence of the implementation of policies of so-called austerity measures. According to that, meaningful phrases such as "necessity of painful cuts", "need to tighten our belts" and "to start with the inevitable diets" at the time of devastating "storm crisis"... have been released and widely distributed. Beyond the ideological aspirations of the actual neo-liberal ideology, the presentation is an attempt to offer a critical interpretation of the mentioned type of the current hegemonic discourse with the stress on characteristic type of its narrative structure and style – that are naturalistic metaphors and allegory. The aim of my presentation is to offer an analysis of previously mentioned naturalistic discursive formations, which are characteristic for nowadays (neo) capitalist hegemony, from the perspective of Foucault's thesis. They are mainly presented in his work from the late ‘60s (L’ archéologie du savoir/ The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1969), and partly in his previous book Le mots et les choses (The Order of Things, 1966). I follow the idea that Foucault's concepts of "epistemes", "discursive formations", and “statements”, as well as phrase, proposition or speech act, represent very useful epistemological tools for understanding of current ideological trends in the realms of capitalist economy, a policy of liberal democracy and linguistic coding practices of predominant social reality.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Filozofija

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