Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

  • Login
  • Hi, User  
    • Your Account
    • Logout
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

Chapter

Afterthought

Chapter

Afterthought

DOI link for Afterthought

Afterthought book

Four notes on witnessing performance in the age of neoliberal dis-experience

Afterthought

DOI link for Afterthought

Afterthought book

Four notes on witnessing performance in the age of neoliberal dis-experience
ByAndré Lepecki
BookSingularities

Click here to navigate to parent product.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
Imprint Routledge
Pages 7
eBook ISBN 9781315694948

ABSTRACT

Neoliberal capitalism rises with what German sociologist Gerhard Schulze has called "the experience society". As early as 1972, futurologist Alvin Toffler was already proposing what a decade later economists Morris Holbrook and Elizabeth Hirschman would explicitly advocate: that capitalism must explore "the experiential aspects of consumption". Benjamin saw that capitalism would reproduce itself by affirming its grip on subjectivity through the implementation of a totalizing "society of information", where information displaces both "intelligence that comes from afar" and "experience" The monitoring and monetizing of the ways participants-consumers feel, narrate and disseminate their experiences is what constitutes neoliberal dis-experience. Symptomatically, its rise coincides with the demise of the figure of the witness that characterizes what Eyal Weizman has recently called "forensic aesthetics".

T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
  • Journals
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
  • Corporate
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
  • Help & Contact
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
  • Connect with us

Connect with us

Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2021 Informa UK Limited