ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the argument of Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire as a model for understanding the foundations of contemporary politics. It examines the depoliticised conditions of contemporary neoliberal society through the concept of post-politics. The post-political nature of neoliberalism's dynamic oscillation between the established social regimes, its compulsive circulation from one affect to the other, indicates that the authors reground the affective logics differently, that an analysis of extra dimension of affect is necessary for any social and spatial analysis of neoliberalism. Post-politics, then, is as much about economisation as it is about the militarisation of society. Today the post-political nature of neoliberalism increasingly centres on securitising and militarising the architectures and circulations of the city. The European Union treatment of Greece is post-political politics at its purest. The militarisation belies the seemingly pacific faade of consensual post-politics; indeed, contemporary society now seems to be formed in the image of militarisation.
