FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2894874516> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2894874516 endingPage "50" @default.
• W2894874516 startingPage "33" @default.
• W2894874516 abstract "Transition as Impasse:Critical Neoliberal Realism and the Problem of Agency Carolyn Veldstra (bio) Between late 2008 and early 2009, political rhetoric in the United States and the United Kingdom emphasized a new spirit of responsibility as essential for citizens concerned to ease the recessions in those countries sparked by the 2008 financial crisis. For instance, in a campaign speech on 26 April 2009, future uk Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the age of irresponsibility is giving way to the age of austerity. The latter era would usher in what Cameron called responsible politics that, he specified, would entail a significant burden of personal responsibility for citizens. Similarly, on 8 January 2009, in his speech on the economy, then President-elect Barack Obama declared an era of profound irresponsibility as at the root of the financial crisis and called for a new spirit of responsibility from Americans. As if anticipating the political rhetoric to come, the 2008 animated summer blockbuster WALL-E—which follows an anthropomorphized trash-compacting robot tasked with cleaning up an abandoned Earth overwhelmed by garbage—depicts some futuristic remainder of the human species evacuated to giant starliners sponsored by the megacorporation Buy-N-Large. Having succumbed to the weightlessness of space, their bodies soft, obese, and confined to hovering lounge chairs, humans have become lazy, complacent, and live only to consume. [End Page 33] It is not until humans can, quite literally, stand on their own two feet and regain the value of hard work that they can reclaim Earth and begin the project of renewal. The confluence of political and pop cultural discourses highlighting responsibility speaks to a transitional moment in which the effects of the financial crisis were beginning to be felt and understood. In each case, these narratives claim a certain version of capitalism as at the root of current problems: for Cameron and Obama, the capitalism of Wall Street wrongdoers, to use Obama's phrasing, and for Pixar, the excess of consumer capitalism, variously construed as the material waste accumulated as trash and the flabby excesses of the consuming subjects' bodies. Each discourse is an oversimplification—to say nothing of WALLE's glib fat phobia—of both the sense of crisis and the availability of transition, particularly in light of the complexity of the financial crisis that in many ways remains ongoing. In their speeches, Obama and Cameron imply hubris not only on the part of banking executives but also among the public, imprudently lured to live beyond their means by promises too good to be true. If capitalism is posed as a problem, then, it is only because we allow it to become a problem by succumbing to the dreams of ease that represent its obscene edges. In this way, each of these texts imagines responsibility as crucial to solving crisis. Individual responsibility is framed as the ground on which a transition out of crisis will be built, and, by contrast, impasse is regarded as a failure of will, giving in to the promised ease of the Buy-N-Large or the mortgage broker, without considering the deleterious effects that will almost inevitably result from such promises. It is not coincidental, then, that the future humans populating WALL-E's starliners live immobilized in self-propelled easy chairs. Transition, responsibility, these entail movement, standing up, taking action, reclaiming Earth from piles of garbage through hard work. Impasse, on the other hand, is prefigured as human stasis. But have impasse and transition remained such clear-cut antonyms in the near-decade that has passed since the onset of the financial crisis? On the one hand, as its seeming opposite, the assumed threat of impasse as stasis lends urgency to transition and justifies an insistence on taking action, staying in motion. As such, one might seek transition to avoid or escape impasse. In a moment of impasse, transition can be a dream, a horizon on which hopes can be placed or dashed, a vague future promise of an exit or escape route. On the other hand, this imagined segue into something else is mirrored by another kind of transition, a perpetual and ongoing transition in a cyclical present in which one..." @default.
• W2894874516 created "2018-10-12" @default.
• W2894874516 creator A5039865057 @default.
• W2894874516 date "2017-01-01" @default.
• W2894874516 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
• W2894874516 title "Transition as Impasse: Critical Neoliberal Realism and the Problem of Agency" @default.
• W2894874516 cites W1518069941 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W1546671698 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W1994743485 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2003719522 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2062199894 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2163682089 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2233299780 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2285661367 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2299414748 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2318860115 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2379593084 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W2798905926 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W3121417828 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W427938445 @default.
• W2894874516 cites W566027822 @default.
• W2894874516 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2017.0033" @default.
• W2894874516 hasPublicationYear "2017" @default.
• W2894874516 type Work @default.
• W2894874516 sameAs 2894874516 @default.
• W2894874516 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W2894874516 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2894874516 hasAuthorship W2894874516A5039865057 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C108170787 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C1370556 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C138921699 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C27206212 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C36289849 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C543847140 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C69828861 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C108170787 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C124952713 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C1370556 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C138885662 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C138921699 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C142362112 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C144024400 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C17744445 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C199539241 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C27206212 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C36289849 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C543847140 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C69828861 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C94625758 @default.
• W2894874516 hasConceptScore W2894874516C95457728 @default.
• W2894874516 hasIssue "2-3" @default.
• W2894874516 hasLocation W28948745161 @default.
• W2894874516 hasOpenAccess W2894874516 @default.
• W2894874516 hasPrimaryLocation W28948745161 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W1770146017 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2029186034 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2082429297 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2132822926 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W243040562 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2534778378 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2782256315 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
• W2894874516 hasRelatedWork W2774793448 @default.
• W2894874516 hasVolume "43" @default.
• W2894874516 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2894874516 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2894874516 magId "2894874516" @default.
• W2894874516 workType "article" @default.