These new identities are meaningful, but they’re often reactive, fragmented, and mediated by platforms designed for performance, not organisation. They generate affective polarisation, but not sustained leverage over power structures.
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So while identity politics is loud and visible, the organisational structures that once enabled collective identities to function as counterpublics, capable of shaping agendas and forcing change, have been hollowed out.
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What we’re left with is identity as expression, not identity as strategic organising. That’s the terrain neoliberalism helped create, one where politics is deeply felt, highly polarised, but structurally disempowered.
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