Neoliberalism as Ideological Infrastructure of Modern Society: A Critical Perspective

dc.contributor.authorPalahuta, Vadim I.en
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-01T11:38:13Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionV. Palahuta: ORCID 0000-0003-4254-1625en
dc.description.abstractENG: This article explores neoliberal ideology as the foundational force behind contemporary social development. Through the lens of political philosophy, social ontology, and media theory, the analysis traces how neoliberalism has transformed from an economic doctrine into a hegemonic ideological framework permeating political, cultural, and technological domains. Drawing upon the works of Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Antonio Gramsci, Thomas Piketty, and Jean Baudrillard, the paper examines how power is exercised not only through institutional and economic mechanisms but also through discursive, digital, and symbolic practices. The digital environment — dominated by global tech corporations such as Google, Meta, Amazon, and Twitter — serves as a primary medium of control and consent generation. The paper argues that the virtualization of reality, enabled by digitalization and media hyperreality, significantly facilitates the internalization of neoliberal values among individuals. Social reality is increasingly shaped by simulation and spectacle, where ideological control is exerted through the production of affective and symbolic systems. Neoliberalism, therefore, functions as both a material and discursive regime, sustaining elite dominance through soft power and voluntary submission. The study contributes to understanding the ontological dimensions of ideology in the digital age and proposes a rethinking of hegemony, resistance, and the role of subjectivity in late capitalism.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational University оf Technology, Dniproen
dc.identifier.citationPalahuta V. Neoliberalism as Ideological Infrastructure of Modern Society: A Critical Perspective. Newsletter on the Results of Scholarly Work in Sociology, Criminology, Philosophy and Political Science. 2025. Vol. 6, No. 1. P. 16–29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61439/ZXCV1234.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.61439/ZXCV1234en
dc.identifier.issn2699-9382 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn2699-9005 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://sci-result.de/journal/article/view/134en
dc.identifier.urihttps://crust.ust.edu.ua/handle/123456789/21988en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEuropean Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (EUASU), Germanyen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectneoliberalismen
dc.subjectideologyen
dc.subjecthegemonyen
dc.subjectdigital environmenten
dc.subjectКМЕіСГДuk_UA
dc.subject.classificationHUMANITIES and RELIGIONen
dc.subject.classificationHUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjectsen
dc.subject.classificationHUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::Philosophy subjectsen
dc.titleNeoliberalism as Ideological Infrastructure of Modern Society: A Critical Perspectiveen
dc.typeArticleen

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