ABSTRACT
This chapter relates neo-liberal values to distinctive organisational features of imagined political economies. It presents the illusory nature of time as an ideological cover-up of absolute and final realities. As an abstract symbolisation of movement, surrealism represents the manipulation and juxtaposition of realis and irrealis spaces which can be seen as an extension to the multidimensional order of reality. The chapter shows that how discourse analysis can play a significant role in understanding the reshaping of political economic relations and how this is closely associated with hierarchising and valuing particular types of knowledge. The analytic focus of the first theme is on how policy texts draw on and simultaneously reshape political economy/ies so as to incorporate fundamental shifts leading to an ‘innovation-driven’ future. To realise national strategies, the texturing of a relationship between the ‘global’ and ‘national’ in policy discourse takes on an important role.
