Human Waste: Slums, Exclusion and the End of Capitalism

glad to see ‏@SaskiaSassen ‘s work making the scene, we need thinkers who are dealing with the here and now and not looking backwards all the time.

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After Tomorrow

At the threshold of a new century the big question to which we, their descendants, will have to find an answer is whether the only choice open to humans is that between Big Brothers mark one and two: whether the inclusion/exclusion game is the only way in which human life in common may be conducted and the only conceivable form our shared world may take – be given – as a result.

– Zygmunt Bauman,  Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts

Capitalism according to the neoliberal consensus is the only game in town, a global game that now pervades every aspect of the planetary socious. There is no place to hide. All one can do is enter the slums of those who have been excluded from this bright City of the Sun of Capital-Markets that seem to follow the horizon like the hounds of some lost hell.

As I said…

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