The Political Economy of Speed
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 is not a nude, as French cultural theorist Paul Virilio points out. It’s a prickly blur. We see no body, but a sequence.
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 is not a nude, as French cultural theorist Paul Virilio points out. It’s a prickly blur. We see no body, but a sequence.
Especially for thinking people, I will briefly outline the reasons for the monstrous war that has unfolded before our eyes in Ukraine. There is nothing worse than a war between social groups of one people.
This is what the White House spokes idiot Jen Psaki describes as “wrecking” the Russian economy:
On March 15, 2022, the IMF published an article written by a group of authors stating that the impact will be carried out through three main channels. Firstly, higher prices for commodities such as food and energy will lead to a further increase i
The phenomenon of economic globalization has ensured that all the rational elements of the economy are interrelated with each other due to the consolidation of oligopolies, technological convergence and tacit corporate agreements, so that the thir
Two of the most influential international credit rating agencies, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s (S&P), followed by the world’s most powerful merchant bank, Goldman & Sachs, have just sent discreet but firm warnings to Marshal-President
Mr. Soros has expressed his ideological fury at the prospect of not being able to make the kind of easy money off China that he was able to siphon off when the Soviet Union was carved up and privatized.
The conjunction of a new oil crisis that could raise prices to $ 80 a barrel with the excessive strength of the dollar could cause an economic cyclogenesis of unpredictable results.
In Part One of this two-part series of essays we explained how events in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shifted Western society f