Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation

The main trust of this article unfolds around the impasse democratic politics today, marked by fading belief in presumably superior architecture liberal institutions to nurture emancipation on one hand, and seemingly inexorable rise a variety populist political movements other. first part focuses lure autocratic populism. second considers how transforming neoliberal governance arrangements pioneered post-truth politics/policies articulation with imposition market rule and, doing so, cleared way for contemporary illiberal populisms. third institutional configuration through which has been fundamentally transformed over past few decades direction post-democratic constellation. concludes arguing need re-script as process subjectivation unfolding trough act.