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Over the past 50 years the massive transnational cultural flows motivated by the rapid globalizat... more Over the past 50 years the massive transnational cultural flows motivated by the rapid globalization and the neoliberal policies have been transforming and complicating the Western world's perspectives on racial differences and the related issues of exclusion. The profiting states that openly support and promote this economic and cultural transition have become what sociocultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai calls the "arbitrager of the repatriation of difference (in the form of goods, signs, slogans, and styles)," leading to an aggravation in the "internal politics of majoritarianism and homogenization." (Appadurai 41) As a result of the neoliberal policies that had been complicating the meaning of national, cultural and personal identities since the early 1950s, politics concerning the mutual effort of cultural uniqueness/difference have become one of the central debates in the globalized political culture of the West.
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The end of the Cold War and the global triumph of neoliberalism were accompanied by the evolution... more The end of the Cold War and the global triumph of neoliberalism were accompanied by the evolution of certain themes in dystopian fiction. According to some of its advocates, such as Francis Fukuyama, neoliberalism’s success signified the “end of history,” understood as ideological evolution, since the decline of communism left Western liberal democracies without any major opposition in terms of global governing and discursive practices. This thesis critically compares neoliberal rhetoric concerning invisible power, the end of history, technology, freedom of consumption and the commodification of human relationships with the ideologies represented in four neoliberal dystopian works of fiction, namely Black Mirror, Feed, The Circle, and The Fat Years. These examples create a “one-dimensional” dystopian subject who is rendered incapable of possessing the utopian imagination necessary to organize political resistance, precisely as a result of the governance and discourse of neoliberalism.
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