That globalization as it has been known, from its beginnings in the 70s and 80s and rapid acceleration in the ‘posthistorical’ 90s through today, has been under threat is not a new observations. Ever the target of discontent, it was the enemy of choice for a hosts of movements, formal and informal, that spanned the […]
Read More Speculations on Post-Covid AmericaMaybe COVID will finally realise the dream of 1990s sociology and its 'network society': the end of face-to-face contact and the full virtualisation of the public sphere. — Anton Jรคger (@AntonJaegermm) March 10, 2020 Harvard University is closing for remote learning. The rest will follow. — John Robb (@johnrobb) March 10, 2020 It plays well […]
Read More TelepresenceRana Foroohar: The coronavirus outbreak is very likely the thing that tips us into full-blown recession; I would put that risk at pretty close to 50% for 2020 https://t.co/Pz4kDk0z0R — Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 9, 2020 “This is the big one”, declare Rana Foroohar and Edward Luce inย FT. This ‘big one’ is the active threat […]
Read More Coronacrunch 2 / Industrial Policy Round-Up 3Viaย Foreign Policy: “Get ready for closed borders and crashing markets”. It’s an article where the liberal commentariat finally crashes into full doomercore mode, detailing a series of escalating, mutually-reinforcing tendencies capable of, at the limit, tearing apart the world order as we know it. James Palmer, the piece’s author (and FP’s Beijing-based senior editor), proposes […]
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Reciprocal Contradiction 