So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you’re scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?
The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund.
It’s a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that’s what I’m doing.
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
The common-sense notion that ‘there is a time and a place for everything’ gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.
The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be ’equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population – 2.3 billion people.
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx’s critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism .
Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital .
Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.
If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?
The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.