Abstract: This concluding chapter presents three arguments concerning political theater. It begins by explaining why Hayekian solutions to lessen state regulation of the economy would not eliminate the conditions that make command performances possible. In and of itself, privatization does not offer protection against the politicization of services. Instead, privatization changes who can be pressured and how. The chapter then highlights the recent adoption of similar dramaturgical forms in American politics. It suggests that political theater in Eastern Europe may prefigure political effects of precarity in capitalism amid economic crisis elsewhere. Finally, the chapter shows that the dislocation of clear boundaries between political and economic authority can reverberate in a blurring of boundaries between state and society, with implications for the future of politics.
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-07-15
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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