Comments on: Sock Puppets on Neoliberal Society

By: a very public sociologist

a very public sociologist — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:11:12 +0000

Noen @6, there’s “dissonance” between classical liberalism and neoliberalism because the relationship between the two is very superficial. Allow me to try the patience of the administrators of this good blog to plug an old(ish) post of mine from last week on defining neoliberalism.

By: Walt

Walt — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:25:19 +0000

The imitations of Kermit and Cookie Monster were pretty good.

By: Chris Ashley

Chris Ashley — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:14:31 +0000

Anybody who rips off Avenue Q is doing something right. (See The Internet Is For Porn as performed by one Trekkie Monster.)

By: noen

noen — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +0000

Boingboing also covered this. From the comments:

Our puppet piece is not directly dealing with economic theory, it is dealing with the shift in power structures. It’s a brief summary of Foucault’s concept of the -> “disciplinary society” and Deleuze’s adaption of Foucault’s ideas (-> “society of control”).

So it isn’t Marxist per se. Also from the comments Zuzu makes the observation:

This is tagged funny because they perpetuate the myth of the Labor Theory of Value, right?

The problem with Neo-Liberalism is the cognitive dissonance between the Classical Liberal theory espoused and the manner “privatization” is put into practice—which more accurately would be called Corporatism.

Which seems to me to be a very accurate assessment.

By: wolfgang

wolfgang — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:54:12 +0000

the creators are from the Austrian group monochrom. an echo from the Austrian Marxists with google and ipod mixed in?

By: abb1

abb1 — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:08:10 +0000

What they’re describing there – is it really the essence of neoliberalism, or is it more like propaganda, ideological indoctrination accompanying neoliberal policies?

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:17:08 +0000

Two nice bits of product placement too . . .

By: yoyo

yoyo — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:59:22 +0000

Amazing.

By: DB

DB — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:39:52 +0000

Speaking of sock puppets, here’s a hilarious story about a corporate quarterly earnings conference call hoaxster, from the weekend WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120301945499169247.html?mod=home_we_banner_left

I for one think “Joe Herrick” is Michael Berube, wasting time he could be using to learn French!