Mediatizing neoliberalism: the discursive construction of education's 'future'

This paper discusses how the chronotopic nature of media representations serves as an important site for naturalizing a neoliberal vision of the future. Through an analysis of two media texts-first, the Korean television documentary series Myeonggyeon Manli, and second, a promotional video for a student career center at a Singaporean university-it shows how they both rely on a representation of the future as a time-space that radically breaks from the present, and how this distinct future chronotope works to rationalize neoliberal transformations of education that are taking place in the here and now.