Market Forces
Market Forces or Market Forces?
Make up your mind. I finished reading Market Forces the day before I read this essay by Naomi Klein, one of the faces of the anti-globalisation movement.
The irony was striking. On the one hand, we've got a mad max future where account directors hit the road for some promotion, and Naomi's polemic. My favourite Kleinism is:
Richard Morgan's book took me a while to get into, but in the end I loved it just as much as I did his earlier Altered Carbon and Broken Angel, the books about Takeshi Kovacs, a reluctant mercenary in a world where you can download your consciousness into empty sleeves and travel between the stars by this manner.
It's funny, when I wrote the previous sentence, I put Broken Carbon and Fallen Angel down. Where did that come from? In any case, he wrote an interesting diatribe against the word loser.
Just don't go calling anyone a Loser.
Oh, and here is a review of Phallos that wasn't so good... I thought he was unfair, Phallos is more of a literary in-joke, a lively story about a fabled phallos that was stolen. It's more of an annotated essay about a book. I like how its also a play on the "Sacred Image of the Masculine". It's a lovely little book.
Make up your mind. I finished reading Market Forces the day before I read this essay by Naomi Klein, one of the faces of the anti-globalisation movement.
The irony was striking. On the one hand, we've got a mad max future where account directors hit the road for some promotion, and Naomi's polemic. My favourite Kleinism is:
a government devoted to perpetual pre-emptive deconstruction now has a standing office of perpetual pre-emptive reconstruction.
Richard Morgan's book took me a while to get into, but in the end I loved it just as much as I did his earlier Altered Carbon and Broken Angel, the books about Takeshi Kovacs, a reluctant mercenary in a world where you can download your consciousness into empty sleeves and travel between the stars by this manner.
It's funny, when I wrote the previous sentence, I put Broken Carbon and Fallen Angel down. Where did that come from? In any case, he wrote an interesting diatribe against the word loser.
Just don't go calling anyone a Loser.
Oh, and here is a review of Phallos that wasn't so good... I thought he was unfair, Phallos is more of a literary in-joke, a lively story about a fabled phallos that was stolen. It's more of an annotated essay about a book. I like how its also a play on the "Sacred Image of the Masculine". It's a lovely little book.
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