Forget the ‘golden age’ of capitalism: there’s no return, and our future can be better
Not only are high levels of growth an undesirable goal and an utterly insufficient rubric for assessing the ‘common wealth’, it is also simply not possible to return to the annualized GDP growth of the post-war ‘golden age’.
March 6, 2012
“The Game is up”: Unrest, policing and the war on the underclass
With the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, following on so closely from the English riots, we are witnessing the end of the “War on Terror” and its replacement by the “War on the Underclass” as the governing paradigm of state-authoritarian technocracy. Under this new scheme, the hoodie replaces the jihadi as the hostile internal Other.”
September 9, 2011