/lit/ - Literature

i read somewhere that people like to shit on neoliberals because they know they're not likely to encounter anyone who will openly admit to being a neoliberal in real life. it's evolved into a term you can use as a strawman for just about anything negative you want to say about capitalism and somebody may even believe that you know what you're talking about. there isn't really any reason why post-structuralism necessarily has to imply the critique of neoliberalism (or 'capitalist realism'); it's just that, afaik, structuralism worked pretty well for a lot of writers who would have considered themselves marxist or were fairly left-leaning (i'm looking at you, france).

levi-strauss, for instance, seems to work well with freud, and the marx-freud (or hegel-lacan) protocol can be run on just about anything and will inevitably turn up a tasty signifier to write about. psychoanalysis is closely linked to saussurian structural linguistics at the beginning, but, of course, language is not stable, or objective, and depends on contexts...which are the kinds of things post-structuralists are interested in.

and context leads to economics, or sociology, and so on. more recently globalization...

then life gets really exciting with these broskis. or horrible, if you think that they haven't criticized capital at all, but have opened the floodgates entirely. down these roads lies acceleration and other interesting ways to ruin your afternoon.