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This web-site is a resource for anyone interested in the language of contemporary capitalism, and the links between economic, social and linguistic change in the contemporary world. The site was set up by an international network of people who are concerned with these issues, particularly with the spread of neoliberal ideologies.
We hope that various groups of people will use and contribute to the web-site, including: researchers doing analysis of language, activists in social movements who see language as part of their concerns, journalists concerned with language and rhetoric, and social researchers in other fields where language is an issue.
Our concern with language is both analytical and critical: a better understanding of how language figures in the new capitalism is part of a better understanding of new capitalism, but also increases our capacity to question and critique it, and to change it.
Here you can post working papers, related links, drafts or documents you wish to share with other group members and you can also read what other people have made available. If you wish to read or download a working paper, click the relevant title. If you wish to send an e-mail to its author, click the author´s name.
First written in 2000 by Joan Pujolar
Archive (in order of submission)
Norman Fairclough Language in the New Capitalism. A new, revised, and enlarged version of the programmatic document for the LNC network. Posted 02/02/00.
Norman Fairclough Comment on Giddens´ “The third way and its critics.” 06/03/00
Norman Fairclough Representations of change in neo-liberal discourse. Analysis of how processes of economic change are represented in a variety of texts. Posted 06/03/00
Diversos Transversales science-culture / La mondialisation sur ARTE. Diversos articles/iniciatives/links apareguts al “Monde Diplomatique.” Joan Pujolar. 06/03/00.
Ruth Wodak and Gilbert Weiss EU Discourses of unemployment Link to a project where European Union (EU) discourses on un/employment are investigated; particularly discourses of EU institutions such as the European Parliament and the European Commission – including different genres like policy-papers, resolutions, interaction in meetings and interviews. 14/03/00
Phil Graham Hypercapitalism: Political economy, electric identity, and authorial alienation. A paper presented at Cybersociety (Northumbria 1999) which outlines certain aspects of "hypercapitalism". Hypercapitalism is the point at which the most intimate aspects of human activity are appropriated by capitalist processes of commodification. Posted 15/03/00
Phil Graham a bunch of notes and quotes” for LNC
This is the first in a series of “a bunch of notes and quotes” for LNC. I have made and collected these during my investigation of the current state of global capitalism. Please feel free to use them. They are disorganised in no specific order. Posted 29/03/00
Norman Fairclough New Labour, new language. Draft pamphlet in the language on New Labour, designed for a general readership. Posted 03/04/00
Norman Fairclough Call for action on language in the new capitalism Short description of the Language in the New Capitalism network foractivists, journalists, and other interested people. Please circulate this to any groups you have access to. Posted 03/04/00.
Ruth Wodak Project on Discourses on Un?Employment and Employment Policies in the EU: A switch from Keynesianism to Neoliberalism and the impact of globalisation rhetoric. This project is part of the Research center "Discourse, Politics and Identity" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Director: Ruth Wodak. Co-researchers: Gilbert Weiss and Peter Muntigl. 10/04/00
Bob Jessop The Crisis of the National Spatio-Temporal Fix and the EcologicalDominance of Globalizing Capitalism. This article develops an argument from a Marxist perspective about the growing dominance of the capitalist economy in the overall development of social relations and notes the contradictions this engenders, especially in terms of the dominant neo-liberal form of globalization. 04/00
Bob Jessop The State and the Contradictions of the Knowledge-Driven Economy This article addresses the problems involved in the transformation of knowledge as a collectively produced resource into intellectual property as a basis for accumulation in a knowledge-driven economy. 04/00
Bob Jessop Reflections on Globalization and its (Il)logics This article is concerned with the overall illogic of globalization from the viewpoint of capital itself - not just from the viewpoint of its victims - and, again, it highlights the problems with neo-liberalism. 04/00
Robert de Beaugrande External Is Not Eternal: On the ‘logic’ of external examiners A sample of recent discourses are analysed regarding the function and operation of external examiners in university programmes. The hidden agenda is found to be to exonerate universities from the economic problems of their graduates by indicating that everyone everywhere has received the 'same' education. This sameness is held to guarantee 'fairness' and 'equality of opportunity', and to paper over the more important question of whether the current content of education provides relevant preparation for the rapidly changing job market. 04/00
Andy Storey The World Bank's Discursive Construction of Rwanda: Poverty, Inequality and the Role of the State. International aid agencies – including the World Bank – have come under some criticism in recent years for portraying states as apolitical, technocratic implementers of policy, with social divisions within a country downplayed or ignored. 4/00
Francesca Bargiela The discourses of economic globalization: a first analysis (new version 8/6/00). This essay, still in draft form, offers a first critical analysis of some of the discourses of economic globalization, using business and management periodicals as textual sources. (A list of references and of textual sources will follow soon). 06/00
Ruth Wodak Does Sociolinguistics need Social Theory? New Perspectives in Critical Discourse Analysis
Keynote, SS2000, Bristol, 27th April 2000 / Comments welcome; please read the handout and diagrammes as well otherwise not understandable / Quote as Conference Paper (to be published in a revised version in Discurso y Sociedad [short summary] and Journal of Sociolinguistics [elaborated and extended version]); references in Handout.
10/05/00 / 40Kb.
Phil Graham A bunch of notes and quotes II - "Money" Number 2 in the series of disorganised and hastily written "notes and quotes". Mostly about money. Next one (number III) will be about "labour" (its significance as a category in language). Posted 29/05/00.
Hans Speckens EGovernment Bulletin Sample issue of e-mail newsletter on electronic government, with details of how to subscribe. ISSUE 88, JUNE 2000. Includes an extensive view on the use of the Internet for political action for the economically repressed. Posted 13/07/00.
Storey, Andy Story-Lines and Scapegoats: Discourse and the Genocidal Imagination in Rwanda This paper examines the creation of an ethnic story-line through which economic crisis in Rwanda was attributed to the Tutsi minority, thus contributing to the facilitation and legitimation of the 1994 genocide. Posted 08/00
Cameron, Deborah Good to Talk? The cultural politics of 'communication'. A critique of feel- good "communication" theories and their ideological uses. Posted 08/00.
Craig, David Solitary Music A poem offered to the LNC Network by poet David Craig - our first contribution from a creative writer. Contribution sent by Norman Fairclough with the author’s permission. 08/00
Marcussen, Martin Globalization: A Third Way Gospel that Travels World Wide Paper presented at the 41st Annual Convention,International Studies Association Los Angeles, CA, 14-18 March 2000 in the panel 'Globalization as Discourse' 09/00
Milner, Jon Etik hos Habermas og Foucault - i forhold til ideologibegrebet i kritisk diskursanalyse The working paper is discussing the possibility to learn from two different ethical 'logics' - in crude terms the modernist and thepoststructuralist approach to ethics summed up in respectively 'sameness' and 'otherness'. The thesis is that since politics is applied ethics, the clarification of the underlying normative assumptions of any political action, including critique, is important - that is, when do we impose 'sameness' and when do we impose 'otherness', and what are the consequences of doing either one or the other? 10/00
Listserv paper archive (papers submitted from July 2001 onwards)
Norman Fairclough - The dialectics of discourse
Norman Fairclough and Phil Graham - Marx and CDA
Phil Graham and Greg Hearn - The Digital Dark Ages
Links to related sites
Colin Lankshear Language and the New Capitalism.
Money, markets & the economy. A website where a range of economists explain what's "new" about new capitalism.
John Ralston Saul Democracy and globalization. Canadian author on language, citizenship, globalisation, and democracy.
Call for papers for the Language of the New Capitalism Stream at the Critical Management Studies Conference 2001:
Call for papers An International Conference on “Research Practice in Professional Discourse” City University of Hong KongNovember 15-19th, 2000
Download Norman Fairclough´s programmatic paper “Language in the New Capitalism”.
Special issue of Discourse & Society
What we have omitted!:creative writers and artists
Download the “call for action...” addressed to activists and professionals
About this web: history, people and contents (coming soon)
Editorial policy with regard to working papers -- Papers are posted here on a voluntary basis by the authors. There is no editorial discretion or refereeing process exercised by anyone connected with the LNC project, although some papers may be in various stages of publication for books or journals. They may also be conference proceedings, or any other sort of publication. Generally, members have stated what sort of publications they are and whether they have been written especially for the LNC project. It is up to you to check with the author on the status of the paper. Members of LNC take no collective responsibility for the work presented here.