HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Secular Humanism, Immunodeficiency, Pink Triangle
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The tumultuous 1980s: aids, neoliberalism and artistic responses. Tune in, drop in and take over mantra: review of last class, hippies, diggers, yippies and yuppies, mary crow dog and feminism, black nationalism and native american activism. Neoliberalism: naomi klein in "this changes everything", neoliberalism according to naomi klein. Such policies as tax cuts, free trade deals, for the auctioning off of core state assets from phones to energy to water the package known in most of the world as "neoliberalism" page 39. Three policy pillars of the neoliberal age privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector . Corporation as pervasive like communist party in other places". But lack soul and also conscience: michael moore in the corporation. Liberal ethics and 1970s dance floor culture: disco/gay clubs: the loft, paradise garage, debates over privatization of common property, michael moore"s call to action, disco and the loft.