Henry A. Giroux, <em>The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy.</em> Aurora: Garamond Press, 2004, 192 pp., $22.95 paper.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In his book, Giroux makes three central related arguments.His first point is theoretical or methodological.Culture, as much as the material relations of production, is necessary to the reproduction of existing market societies.Ideology matters and is, indeed, an essential component of the reproduction of neoliberal forms of capitalism.Serious scholars of capitalism must take what Gramsci might have called 'ideological materials' -the press, but also, even especially, the education system, churches, prisons -seriously as objects of study, since these are sites of capitalism's reproduction and so also, potentially, sites of resistance.Giroux's second point is mainly descriptive and turns on his argument that the most accurate characterization of the ideological superstructure and politics in the United States today is "proto-fascist", authoritarian -in a word, "totalitarianism lite" (155).Steeped in religious fundamentalism, manipulating fear and restricting basic freedoms in the name of a new kind of "patriotic correctness" (19), the United States is profoundly dangerous, the "anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and anti-socialistic" product of "failed democracy" (15).In short, the United States today is not entirely unlike Nazi Germanyif, Giroux hastens to add, differing from the German case in historically specific, nontrivial ways.Giroux's third and final major argument, this time in a normative strain, insists on the privileged role that intellectuals must assume in the struggle over proto-fascist forms of capitalism.Intellectuals are the acknowledged experts, as both interpreters and actors, in the cultural realm that is, in Giroux's view, so fundamentally relevant to politics.By engaging in 'worldly' scholarship, that is, by undertaking research, writing and teaching in ways that are at once rigorous and resolutely, critically 'engaged' with contemporary problems (racism, poverty, etc.) intellectuals can hope to alter the cultural landscape.In so
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.077 | 0.026 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".