Liam Gillick talks about a book published in 1998 that foretold the perils of neoliberalism we are facing today.
TLDR:
`To Live and Think Like Pigs is about the marketization of every gesture, made possible by the accommodations that were made between increasingly cynical class actors at every level and the Ayn Randish pseudo-ethical nerd culture. Under the banner of personal liberty, this culture would come to feed on the individual as a source of data, maintained by envy and incited by boredom. Following our night in the club, an irreversible change has taken place. The capitulation to “rational expectations” is complete: “Now would come the era of the market’s Invisible Hand, which dons no kid gloves in order to starve and crush silently” (19).`