The US philosopher and literary critic, Fredric Jameson, once claimed that it is “easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. As quotes go, this one captures an important aspect of our times, which is that we seem unable to imagine a world different from the present.
Political scientists describe the age we are living in as “post-political”. This controversial concept refers to a noted lack of political alternatives on a global scale.
Most point to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s as the beginning of the post-political era and a new global order marked by what US anthropologist David Harvey defines as a “new imperialism”.
