ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. This book provides an explanation of just what neoliberalism is, and how the global turbulence is best understood precisely as a terminal crisis of that globally dominant and globalizing political economic regime. It provides an analysis of the contemporary co-production of a China-in-the-world and low-carbon urban mobility innovation. While this reveals an essentially contested domain of innovation-as-politics, it also uncovers an ongoing process of exceptional socio-political dynamism that affords qualitative extrapolation into a new and resettled twenty-first century capitalism. 'Liberalism 2.0' or complexity liberalism emerges as the incipient system logic of the most strategically enabled political project of this turbulent (and, as such, quintessentially liberal) age, including as political patron and sponsor of a new complexity episteme and breakthroughs in 'complex' systems sciences.