January 2012
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Jonathan Ford reviews "Kicking Off" in the... →
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paulmasonnews:
Once again reviewer (as with Ian Birrell in Observer) claims Bouazizi was “just an entrepreneur” and even claims large masses on streets of Greece and Spain “not anticapitalist”. I think this is an emerging genre of reviews. What you have to ask is why modern capitalism is making the perfectly normal entrepreneurial desires of slum dwellers and urban poor across the...
RECOMMENDED READZ
Not neccessarily my favourite books - but all germane for understanding the present condition and future possibilities in light of the global financial crisis.
1) Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
2) The Violence of Finance Capitalism by Christian Marazzi
3) Historical Capitalism by Immanuel Wallerstein
4) The Second Meditation by Fredrich Nietzsche
5) The Genealogy of Morality by Fredrich...
Escalate Collective 'Salt'
Escalate collective’s new text SALT is available to download
‘This piece, more extensive than our previous interventions, offers a history of the economic crisis of capitalist deferral particularly with reference to struggles in the United Kingdom’.
The IMF on the Road to Becoming the World's...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights
This is what a candid ruling class sounds like.... →
This is what a candid ruling class sounds like.... →
“There is probably no domain of man’s thinking or material activity that...”
– Georges Boulanger,
Dossier on Cybernetics: utopia or science of tomorrow in the world today, 1968.
Rise of the 'Industrial Ruins' Genre. Wish... →
Rise of the 'Industrial Ruins' Genre. Wish... →
Boredom in the Charnel House. Theses on...
Cross-post from ‘Variant’ issue 42, Winter 2011 - available here
“Our capital of misery remains intact down through the ages; yet we have one advantage over our ancestors; that of having invested our capital better, since our disaster is better organised.”1 E.M Cioran, A Short History of Decay
1/ Suggestive Boredom
A friend recently sent me a poem that explained his...
