ABSTRACT

M. G. Lee notes that what neoliberalism does is offer an economic idealization that stands apart from the practices engendered by Communism and the Cold War. The practices of neoliberalism and the diverse ways in which they are formulated have been the subject of many critiques that have emerged from the critical milieu. Scholarship has already explored neoliberalism as a slowly encroaching doom to the future of public education, especially urban education. With its tentacles in many facets of everyday life, neoliberalism stretches across social experiences down to everyday realities of how people come to think about their own subjectivities. Dominant conceptions of neoliberal ideologies mixed with highly sexist metaphors of a pimp/prostitute relationship are the mental models that fit a narrative of self-development within the ethos of neoliberal accountability schemes. The work of Ayn Rand becomes a popular literary representation of a vision situated within something that resembles a neoliberal ethos.