Only toward the end of the twentieth century did homo oeconomicus (in its distinctly neoliberal iteration) finally get the better of homo politicus, usurping its territory, terms, and objects both in the figure of the human and the polity. If this process were to become complete, if homo politicus were really vanquished, it would darken the globe against all possibilities of democratic or other just futures.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 172