Faculty Writing: On Big Tech, and the Neoliberal Management of Mental Health
July 10, 2025
In The New York Times, Samantha Hill takes account of the loneliness that Big Tech has wrought; while, writing in Abolitionist Futures, Jenny Logan (and co-author Lizzie Hughes) critiques the pervasive “carceral management of ‘difficult’ mental health” in the UK and the United States. “‘Community care’ in the era of neoliberal politics,” as they assess, “has turned out to be an Orwellian euphemism masking a nightmare existence for all too many of those afflicted with serious psychoses and for their families.”