Conclusion: The Possibility of a Radical Media Politics

Abstract

This book offered a theoretical account of the relationship between neoliberalism, media and the political, supported by empirical analyses from different contexts. I focused on critically understanding the sedimented condition of neoliberalized media regimes, endeavouring to illuminate aspects and dimensions not captured in summary critical nar-ratives about neoliberalism or in summary claims about “the neoliberal media”. I emphasized the dialectical interplay between neoliberal logics and other discursive logics, interrogating the image of a monolithic neoliberalism that simply imposes itself on other domains and practices. The strategic intention was to identify the sites of a cultural politics within the immanent rationality of neoliberalized regimes, elucidating objects and logics that might be politically acted on in the name of a radically different kind of media and political culture.