ABSTRACT
I conclude by presenting Succession as another centrist fantasy concerning the libertarian Right. Based partially on a fictional representation of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, this series combines the serious with the unserious as it updates King Lear for contemporary culture. With the possible death of the powerful father, the show concerns not only who and what will replace the old dying order but why a seemingly liberal audience would want to identify with the libertarian Right. As I show through this book, an unacknowledged truth about contemporary centrism is its repressed attraction to the selfish drive of capital accumulation within a global cultural system catering to masculine power.
