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Appraising the "Greek truth committee" in the age of debt: counter-Expertise, "battle truths," and the struggle against post-crash neoliberalism
This article appraises the value of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt (TCPD) as a form of resistance to postcrash neoliberalism. It analyses the TCPD as a knowledge-making practice that directly confronts neoliberalism's use of sovereign debt as a "technology" designed not only to secure itself against democratic demands but to constrain subjectivity within the model of an entrepreneur-of-the-self. Through an analysis of its Preliminary Report, I explore the TCPD's work as a form of what Lazzarato calls "counter-expertise," which not only destabilized dominant mythologies regarding the public debt, but constructed new "truths" about it that could cultivate new modes of political resistance.
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Theory and EventISSN
1092-311XPublisher
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4Volume
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1003-1034Department affiliated with
- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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2022-11-15First Open Access (FOA) Date
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