Neoliberal and Militarised Post-Politics: Four Social Regimes, Four Affects and Radical Politics Today

This dissertation theorises the depoliticised conditions of late capitalism
through what I call a ‘neoliberal and militarised post-politics.’ It argues that
ours is a neoliberal and militarised post-political society that cannot
imagine disruptive revolutionary events. The dissertation addresses key
debates on governmental social regimes of neoliberal post-politics, the
inseparability of neoliberalism and war/militarism, and the
historical/geographical unevenness of global capitalism. In so doing, it
offers an original topological analysis that makes the following critical
interventions: an exploration of how the much-discussed social regimes of
sovereignty, discipline and control relate to each other in the production of
neoliberal governmentality; an analysis of the affective logic each regime
entails and how they inter-relate; a proposal for a fourth regime,
‘terrorism’, and a theorisation of its associated affect, ‘spite.’ Finally,
radical critique as divine violence is set against neoliberal and militarised
post-politics.