The "new fusionism"
 

Slobodian's "new fusionism"
 
"the new fusionism [defends] neoliberal policies through arguments borrowed from cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary psychology and in some cases genetics, genomics, and biological anthropology" (10)
 
also "sociobiology, the discipline created by ecologist E. O. Wilson" (Wilson himself has expressed an intention to "'biologicize' questions of human ethics" (Slobodian's paraphrase, 10))
 
They use "the language of science to justify the extensions of competitive dynamics ever deeper into social life" (10)

> from Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the New Right (2025)

> tagged with #anthropology, #genetics, #psychology, #depressing, #science

> created May 7, 2025 at 7:27:23 PM


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