Conclusions: Context, Politics, Negativity

Y. Mylonas

doi:10.1163/9789004409187_008

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Conclusions: Context, Politics, Negativity

Ch. 7. P. 213–227.

Mylonas Y.

The reintroduction of a critical vocabulary that was made redundant by postmodernism and the subsequent hegemony of neoliberalism as a post-historical project can demonstrate the systemic and structural aspects of the crisis and among them, the values and the social relations naturalising capital-ism. This way, critical theory can estrange and defamiliarise (Shklovsky, 2015: 163) what passes as common sense through the depiction of capitalist society’s deep flaws. Under this view, the capitalist market emerges as an oppressive system other than as a somewhat prerequisite of “civilisation”, “progress”, “free-dom” and “democracy”.

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Keywords: Cultural racism social critique post democracy neoliberal capitalism class cultures

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The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics

Mylonas Y. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Mainstreaming class (dis)contents in popular film and TV series: HBO’s The White Lotus (S1) and Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness

Mylonas Y., Journal of Class & Culture 2024 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 145–162

The empirical focus of this study is Season 1 of the popular HBO series The White Lotus (2020) and Ruben Östlund’s film Triangle of Sadness (2022), both of which achieved worldwide popularity and critical acclaim. The study draws on narrative analysis, to examine class relations and class subjectivities in these productions. Anchored in today’s highly precarious and competitive neo-liberal ...

Added: June 23, 2025

Inter- and Intranational Mediated Shaming to Justify Austerity Measures: The Case of the ‘Greek Crisis’

Mylonas Y., , in: Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe.: Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Ch. 10 P. 183–200.

This chapter focuses on media practices of shaming, as performed during the early years of the so-called Greek crisis (2009–2015) by the news media of Germany, Denmark and Greece. The chapter shows that the hegemonic publicity around the ‘Greek crisis’ cumulated into a public shaming practice of the Greek people, ridiculed by media spectacles of crisis. ...

Added: July 12, 2021

Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. Class and poverty are not understood as certain things and actions, ...

Added: July 12, 2021

Exceptionalising the Crisis, Normalising Austerity

Mylonas Y., , in: The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics.: Leiden: Brill, 2019. Ch. 6 P. 182–212.

Chapters 4 and 5 presented the cultural and moral construction of the Greek crisis in the European mainstream media. Both dimensions are interrelated and stem from authoritative political and economic institutions and estab-lishments. The technocratic expertise of neoliberal economists in particular, outlines the economic crisis in a seemingly depoliticised manner. Acts of de-politicisation though are ...

Added: April 13, 2021

Interpolations of class, “race”, and politics: Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten and its coverage of Greek national elections during the “Greek crisis”

Mylonas Y., Noutsou M., Nordicom Review 2021 Vol. 42 No. 3 P. 56–70

This article focuses on the ways in which the Danish liberal mainstream press covered events related to the so-called Greek crisis. In particular, we examine the coverage of the different Greek national elections that took place during the Greek crisis years (2010–2019) by Jyllands-Posten (JP), a popular Danish daily newspaper. Qualitative content analysis is deployed ...

Added: April 13, 2021

Race and class in German media representations of the ‘Greek crisis’

Mylonas Y., , in: The Media and Austerity.: [б.и.], 2019. P. 140–154.

Research has shown that the mainstream media coverage of the EU’s economic crisis has been not only offensive and prejudiced for the people of the countries most affected by it, but most crucially, utterly relying on elite understandings of the crisis, as articulated by the political and economic establishment of the EU. Indeed, the hegemonic ...

Added: July 19, 2019

Повесть М. Бременера «Пусть не сошлось с ответом!» (1956) и программа обновления педагогики и литературы в советском обществе начала «оттепели»

Maiofis M., Детские чтения 2016 Т. 10 № 2 С. 53–69

Based on extensive archival research, the article analyzes the forgotten work of the mid-1950s, a novella by Max Bremener, Let it Not Match the Answer! Published in the most exciting moment of the “Thaw” era (November, 1956), this novella can be considered as a reflection of and response to the earlier (1953-1954) discussions on the problem of ...

Added: October 20, 2017