“The bank is the monster”

From John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Thanks Martin.

The Nazca Lines of the Value Form

One day, just like archaeologists and speculators on the paranormal tussle over the origins of Peruvian geoglyphs, so will post-capitalist hominids muse about the inscrutable forces that carved these strange vacant geometries over China.

 

 

Blood money (I ♥ $)

From Johan van der Keuken’s I ♥ $ (thanks to retentional finitude).

“Like birds on the side of a cliff”

Very Nice, Very Nice, dir. Arthur Lipsett (1962)

The extended workbench

Digital Handcraft. China`s global factory for computers from PC Global films.

A very good documentary from Alexandra Weltz on global value chains, the toxic devaluation of labour and the all-too-material bases of the ideology of the immaterial.

Fear of Muppets

The persistence of the colour line

From Joel Olson, ‘Whiteness and the 99%’.