Post-Fordism

In the time since then we've...

What have we covered? We've covered the violence of cities and urban planning in sort of post-structuralist, post-Fordist, uh, political economies.

We've finished [chuckles] we, we rounded out our Combat 18 series, uh, along the way through with Gareth.

We-

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Muskism is one name for this moment that we're living in, an era after Fordism and then after post-Fordism or neoliberalism.

It's a moment dominated by neoliberalism's financial fabulism, fueling endless asset appreciation, but also by a hard tech material base, data centers, Tesla cars, satellites.

But perhaps we have not yet become meme, even as the richest man on Earth does everything possible to ensure that we do.

In other words, how you find a way to make money to generate capital, but then also find a way to engineer a set of social institutions such that sufficient buy-in from the working class can be achieved that you have a stable accumulation regime.

And Fordism was, in their view, the, the apotheosis of, of how to do that.

Of course, we're now living at a moment that is arguably the breakdown of post-Fordism.

So if ...

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Muskism is one name for this moment that we're living in, an era after Fordism and then after post-Fordism or neoliberalism.

It's a moment dominated by neoliberalism's financial fabulism, fueling endless asset appreciation, but also by a hard tech material base.

Data centers, Tesla cars, satellites.

In other words, how you find a way to make money, to generate capital, but then also find a way to engineer a set of social institutions such that sufficient buy-in from the working class can be achieved, that you have a stable accumulation regime.

And Fordism was, in their view, the apotheosis of how to do that.

Of course, we're now living in at a moment that is arguably the breakdown of post-Fordism.

So in terms of periodizing where we're sitting now, we're farther down the line.