One secondary effect of the blow-up over Jack Halberstam’s trigger warning essay is the widening skepticism of the term “neoliberal” as a sort of empty buzzword. Because I just finished teaching a grad seminar whose main objective was to figure out what the hell we mean when we say “neoliberalism” (here is the … Continue reading An attempt at a precise & substantive definition of ‘neoliberalism,’ plus some thoughts on algorithms