ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book identifies a set of ethical and political ambiguities in the performance of the discourses of the global event, around the potential for affective discipline and the reification of market life in terms of neo-liberalism and/or complexity. Neo-liberalism, however defined, is neither inevitably successful nor essentially coherent with itself or these contingent performances of the global event. The book argues that the politics of subjectivity implies an ongoing conversation; how people come to know, live and perform global events through discourses of trauma and resilience can lead to interesting and unintended outcomes. Such discourses can be politicised in critical or emancipatory ways, whether through documentaries that emphasise the class and racial politics of Hurricane Katrina or alternative finance campaigns that articulate a more reciprocal, less leveraged, version of resilient global finance.
