The Maven of NeoLiberalism
by Neil Smith
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. Picador (2008).
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine hit bookshelves and internet bookseller sites in 2007 just as the storm clouds of global economic crisis were about to burst. She was not in the least concerned with US housing and the subprime mortgage and foreclosure crisis which, […]
Autonomy!
by Ashley Dawson
Autonomia: Post-Political Politics Edited by Sylvère Lotringer and Christian Marazzi
Before the book, a place and time: Berlin, summer, 1990. Or actually, the road to Berlin. I’d spent the last two days on the move, hitchhiking without sleep to get from Amsterdam to Berlin. I was delirious, having spent hours talking to a Dutch businessman who spewed a stream of racist bile about Muslims taking over his country and an even longer time with an Italian truck driver who insisted that he was carrying a large consignment of weapons for the Sicilian mafia.
