Post-Politics

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"Post-politics refers to the critique of the emergence, in the post-Cold War period, of a politics of consensus on a global scale: the dissolution of the Eastern Communist bloc following the collapse of the Berlin Wall instituted a post-ideological consensus based on the acceptance of the capitalist market and the liberal state as the organisational foundations of society. Generated by a cohort of radical philosophers – namely Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek – and their concern with politics as the institution of radical, active equality, this critique claims that the post-ideological politics of consensus has occasioned the systematic foreclosure of the properly political moment: with the institution of a series of new “post-democratic” governmental techniques, politics proper is reduced to social administration. Meanwhile, with the rise of the postmodernist “politics of self” comes a concomitant new “politics of conduct”, in which political values are replaced by moral ones (what Chantal Mouffe terms “politics in the register of morality”)." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-politics)