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Michel Feher

Michel Feher

Michel Feher is a philosopher and a founding editor of Zone Books. He is the author of Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (2018) and the coeditor, with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee, of Nongovernmental Politics (2007) and, with William Callison, Milad Odabaei, and Aurélie Windels, of Europe at a Crossroads (2016). icon

The Political Ascendancy of Creditworthiness

By Michel Feher

The widespread resurgence of authoritarian nationalism in recent years has been met by the left with fear and loathing—but also a bit of envy. For it is ...

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