Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics

Jodi Dean's Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an intelligent analysis of the failures of the American left. Dean specifically finds fault in its focus on identity politics — and specifically its language of victimization, its focus on individual feelings rather than group interests, and what she calls communicative capitalism (the use of social media and similar ineffective methods to register dissent).