The paper examines the way one talks about economic crisis of 2008. The stubbornness of the fundamental neoliberal illusion about market is approached via the psychoanalysis, as well as reasons why the crisis was such a surprise and why it is perceived as a natural process which will automatically lead ‘out’.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37828909
The crisis, which first seemed to have introduced the moment of discontinuity into the functioning of the capitalist system, in time transformed into its opposite. Through the process of discursive instrumentalisation it produced a situation of eternal temporariness that can be understood as the materialisation of the end of history. It is argued that it is precisely because of this specific organisation of the defence against the perception of irreversible processes that we have to understand the crisis as an irreversible event.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37829165
The text departs from the fact that our contemporary era supplies plenty of evidence as to how general “disillusionment” works perfectly well with the maintaining of the status quo. The political and economic game work not in spite of our “disillusionment” concerning it, but precisely because of it, and with its help. This logics as well as the thesis that exposing power as “comedy” does not diminish its capacity to function the paper explores with the help of to references, Jean Genet’s Balcony and Lar von Trier’s comedy The Boss of It All.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37704749