key: cord-0063152-6xi4r5d5 authors: León, Kenneth Sebastián title: Simon Springer: Fuck Neoliberalism: Translating Resistance: PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2021, 240 pp, ISBN: 978-1-62963-789-1 (PB), 978-1-62963-813-3 (ebook) date: 2021-05-15 journal: Crit Criminol DOI: 10.1007/s10612-021-09568-y sha: ca87264d6932f4f609f46c9d297c9c0319b341a0 doc_id: 63152 cord_uid: 6xi4r5d5 nan not more agitated, more concerned, more upset about the machinations of neoliberalism that increasingly govern our lives. The collaborative translations are, in part, intended to showcase that neoliberalism sucks for variously situated people around the world. The translations provide a written testament to the international nature of resistance to neoliberalism. In channeling another frustration that this text helps to relieve, I will reciprocate the polemic energy and share that I detest e-books, their price schemes, and their metastasizing presence. You cannot lend an e-book for free. You can purchase an e-book about climate change, but you need your electricitypowered device to access it. You cannot throw an e-book across a room or put it in a stack of books on your shelf. E-books cannot be placed strategically in the background of your zoom calls. And if you had this book in digital form on your bullshit Amazon Kindle, it would be a subtle neoliberal parody of itself. Having physical copies of things matters. When the authoritarian regime shuts down your internet access, or when another extreme weather event knocks out your energy infrastructure, or when you find yourself waiting in line for hours to fulfill a basic human need, or when the state police seize your tablet at the airport because you were reading Noam Chomsky or the theory of evolution again, you will appreciate that this book is available in physical form. Whether at the hipster café or the private detention facility near you, this book was made to be shared. My only critique of the text is that it devotes too much attention to their internal decision to use the term "fuck." In short, the author seems to imply that it is a rather bold decision to use such a word in the title of one's publication, when it is actually quite common (see the arbitrarily derived "Fuck Index" below). As I was reading this section, my millennial brain could only think: "Go off, king-say whatever tf you want! It's your book!" The political ethos of the text is not only admirable, but a necessary contribution to the academic and popular record. When we (or others) look back and examine what we did through our day jobs, I believe this book will age well. It will show that even academics (who are rather risk-averse and part of a structurally conservative enterprise) could not ignore the fundamentally dystopian trajectory that many of us feel we are on, and the twenty-one languages and the perspectives of the translators underscore that we are connected in this experience. The language is not offensive, but necessary, and the energy captured in this book supports directly the continued coalition building to unfuck ourselves from the interests, incentives, and insidious state-corporate forces that seek to normalize this neoliberal existence while calling it "progress." Fuck neoliberalism, indeed. This is a list of articles based on a search of the word "fuck" through my university library's online search bar, filtered to include only "peer-reviewed journals." This is a convenience sample and in no way representative of all the compelling titles that one might find in a separate search. Go the Fuck to Sleep: Well-Being, Welfare, and the Ends of Capitalism in US Discourses on Infant Sleep I Feel English as Fuck': Translocality and the Performance of Alternative Identities through Rap Fuck Shakespeare' and MEChA in the '80s: An Interview with Daniel Chacón Not Gay as in Happy, but Queer as in Fuck You Three Meditations on Anti-Asian Violence and COVID-19, or Fuck Off Unexpected Negative Participant Responses and Researcher Safety: 'Fuck Your Survey and Your Safe Space, Trigger Warning Bullshit Fuck Off to the Tampon Bible': Misrecognition and Researcher Intimacy in an Online Mapping of 'Lad Culture Fuck From Fuck Marry Kill to Snog Marry Avoid?: Feminisms and the Excesses of Femininity Fuck Business': The Conservative Party, Capital, and Britain's EU Membership Fuck Nuance. Sociological Theory A Party for the 'Freaks': Performance, Deviance and Communitas at Club Fuck!, 1989-1993 Fuck, Fuck, Fuck: Reflexivity and Fidelity in Reporting Swearwords in Management Research. M@n@gement Stay the Fuck at Home!': Feminism, Family and the Private Home in a Time of Coronavirus Latino Criminology: Unfucking Colonial Frameworks in 'Latinos and Crime' Scholarship Young, Black (& Brown) and Don't Give a Fuck: Virtual Gangstas in the Era of State Violence Keen as Fuck': Youth Participation in Qualitative Research as 'Parallel Projects Fuck Austerity. English Studies in Canada Fuck Autonomy: Neo-Orientalism and Abjection in Michel Houellebecq's Soumission Dear Reviewer 2: Go F' Yourself Fuck Patriarchy! An Analysis of Digital Mainstream Media Discussion of the #freethenipple Activities in Iceland in Yes, We Fuck! Challenging the Misfit Sexual Body through Disabled Women's Narratives Reading Parents: Parody and Paradox in Go the Fuck to Sleep You Don't Understand?' The NILRC and Politics of the Left in Northern Ireland Fuck the Patriarchy: Towards an Intersectional Politics of Irreverent Rage I Just Wanna See Someone Get Knocked the Fuck out': Spectating Affray on Facebook Fight Pages