Type of Work
Self-Directed
Role
Designer and Researcher
Project Description
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, known for advising the Reagan administration, made the claim that we had reached “the end of history.”
Seeing the waning power of the Soviet Union, according to Fukuyama, there were no longer any threats to the global rule of neoliberalism.
The End of History–History of the End is a book of two timelines. Section 1,
The End of History, documents key events contributing to the global dominance of neoliberalism. Importantly, it shows that this process was never destined, but achieved through coups, assassinations, and violent imposition. Section 2,
History of the End, documents global acts of resistance to neoliberalism. It’s a collection of living proof that people want and are fighting for an alternative. Future alternatives have never been foreclosed; there has always been contingency and a desire for living otherwise.