Fuck Neoliberalism: Translating Resistance

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Fuck Neoliberalism: Translating Resistance is a worldwide middle finger to the all-encompassing ideology of our era. The original essay sparked controversy in the academy when it was first released, and has since spread around the world as enthusiastic rebels translated it into their own languages. This book brings those translations together, accompanied with short essays from each translator that explain the reasons why they translated the text and describes the localised struggles against neoliberalism in their regions.

Simon Springer is professor of human geography and director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

"In the dismal halls of academia's precarious contracted labour, it was delightful to hear these joyful strains of 'fuck it, yep, fuck it to hell.' Simon Springer's ode to our current situation is the tantric yoga all our subjectivities need." --Bek Conroy, autonomous and precarious artist activist academic "Fuck Neoliberalism is a call to action for an abandoned generation. Simon Springer wants us to find the everyday moments, conversations, and places where we can resist this social, political, and economic violence we increasingly face and build a new world better than the current one. A must-read for anyone trying to understand and change this world we live in!" --Kean Birch, author of We Have Never Been Neoliberal: A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth "In this rather brilliant essay, Springer joyfully calls time on the long night of neoliberal fuckery. By invoking a spirit of freedom, nonviolence, solidarity, and hope Fuck Neoliberalism invites us all to find ways to tramp the dirt down on the grave of neoliberalism and play our part in ensuring that all life on this beautiful planet can flourish once again." --Richard J. White, coeditor of the Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt trilogy: The Radicalization of Pedagogy, Theories of Resistance, and The Practice of Freedom "In Fuck Neoliberalism, Springer takes aim at more or less everyone (himself included) who continues to reproduce the power of the neoliberal cop in our head. By thinking and saying the simple phrase 'fuck it, ' he argues, we can affirm our rejection, our critique of neoliberalism, but also crucially a desiring energy to create other ways of thinking, being, and doing beyond neoliberal logics. Not even writers of blurbs to be printed on the back of books are exempt from Springer's powerful and provocative call to arms. And on that note, fuck it, I'm outta here." --Anthony Ince, lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University