I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is specific about the current warfare and surveillance state and the neoliberal project and how different interests, modes of power, social relations, public pedagogies and economic configurations come together to shape its politics.

Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power under neoliberalism that's unprecedented. They control the cultural apparatuses. And what I mean by "cultural apparatuses" is all those institutions that are about the production of knowledge, values, dispositions, and subjectivities. They control them.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.