The Mess We're In
Subtitle: How Our Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 25 July 2018
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781760632502
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Liberalism; Populism; Internet, political aspects; International relations; Australia, politics and government
Table of contents: label: INTRODUCTION
title: xiii; title: PART 1: SYMPTOMS OF CHAOS:; label: A THEMATIC HISTORY OF 2016-2018
title: 1; label: The death of trust
title: 2; label: Fake populists
title: 4; label: Fake news and denialism
title: 6; label: Xenophobia and bigotry
title: 10; label: Taking back control
title: 14; label: Employment and economics
title: 17; label: Alienating the customers
title: 23; label: War on the young
title: 27; label: Political failures
title: 32; label: Malcolm Turnbull and the politics of disappointment
title: 36; label: Rootin' for Putin
title: 39; label: Political killing
title: 41; label: The decline of civility
title: 44; label: Revolt of the white men
title: 47; label: Diagnosis
title: 53; label: PART 2: NEOLIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
title: 56; label: What is it?
title: 57; label: The success of neoliberalism
title: 64; label: All things being unequal: neoliberalism and inequality
title: 68; label: In theory: complexity and concentration
title: 79; label: Swiss cheese or, Towards a competitive index of competitiveness indices
title: 91; label: The robots are taking our jerbs
title: 95; label: Individualism, identity and the neoliberal economics of self
title: 99; label: W(h)ither the Left
title: 110; label: Biographical note: accidental death of a neoliberal
title: 119; label: Conclusion
title: 125; label: PART 3: (UN)GOVERNMENT
title: 127; label: The party's over
title: 128; label: Of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation
title: 138; label: Things fall apart: the corporations cannot hold
title: 148; label: Learned helplessness and its lessons
title: 158; label: The bureaucrats
title: 167; label: Biographical note: Canberra, so white
title: 171; label: Neoliberal tragedy: how Reform was ignored to death
title: 176; label: Abbott, Trump and the role of conventions in government
title: 181; label: The war on scrutiny
title: 186; label: Terrorism and why it will never be defeated
title: 191; label: Conclusion: interactions with neoliberalism
title: 200; label: ENTR'ACTE THE AGES OF UNREASON
title: 203; label: PART 4: THE INTERNET-WEAPON OF MASS DISRUPTION
title: 213; label: No biggie, but the internet is changing your brain right now
title: 215; label: Joining imagined communities
title: 222; label: Dead set on disruption
title: 225; label: Disintermediating the media
title: 231; label: Surveillance
title: 243; label: Biographical note: disillusion, delusion and intrusion
title: 252; label: Conclusion: perfect storm
title: 256; label: PART 5: REPAIRING THE PRECARIOUS CRUST
title: 259; label: Solutions
title: 265; label: Vade in pace
title: 291