Contents

Preface: Anatomy of the New Neoliberalism

Introduction: From Bad to Worse

1.Governing by Crisis

Oligarchy against Democracy

The Radicalization of Neoliberalism

Crisis as a Method of Government

Crisis as a Weapon of War

2.The Neoliberal Project: An Anti-Democratic Project

Against ‘Popular Sovereignty’

The Pre-eminence of Private Law over Government and State

‘Demarchy’ or the Constitutionalization of Private Law

The Ordo-Liberal Idea of an ‘Economic Constitution’

3.Neoliberal System and Capitalism

The Disciplinary System of Competition

The Neoliberal System and the ‘Laws’ of Capital

Extending the Boundaries of the Appropriation of Nature Ever Further

Limitlessness as a Regime of Subjectivity

4.The European Union, or, The Empire of Norms

The ‘European Project’: From Narrative of Origins to Historical Reality

The Construction of the Mega Market

The ‘Expertocratic’ Governance of the European Union

Budget and Currency as Disciplinary Tools

In What Way Is the European Union ‘Social’?

5.The Debt Noose

Debt as a Government Tool

A New Conception of ‘Sovereignty’

Whatever It Takes

A Logic of Political War

‘Debtocracy’, or, The Sovereign Power of Creditors

Societies Enslaved to Debt

6.The Neoliberal Oligarchic Bloc

Agents of Radicalization

Professional Politics and Neoliberal Domination

Systemic Corruption

The Age of Corporate Power

The Osmosis of Banks and Senior Civil Servants

Economic Expertise and the Mediatic Shaping of Reality

The Oligarchic Bloc and the Right-Wing Left

Conclusion: Democracy as Experimenting with the Commons

A Historical Crisis of the Left

The Experience of the Commons against Expertocracy

The Strategy of the Democratic Bloc

Notes

Index