Hejinian sees "an ongoing neoliberal takeover of the public sphere" beginning around the time of the 2008 financial crisis
she sees "late capitalism" as being "in its self-destructive mode and seeming to mimic the toxic narcissism of contemporary plutocrats, kleptocrats, and tyrants" and she worries about how its "cultural logic [...] is playing out in the social spaces in which art works appear"