December 2009
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A Discussion from Google Wave
note: feel free to edit this if you feel like one of the points could use a bit more elucidation, just make sure to draw the distinction between what you write and what others write. I want to add annotations and clear this up a bit, and I’d appreciate input, especially from those who don’t entirely understand the discussion: it helps me to know what ideas need to be clarified or...
I feel like the lone idiot in a group of...
'Harvey Moments'
Harvey specifies seven “moments” within capitalism, where social change arises:
a) technological and organizational forms of production, exchange and consumption b) relations to nature c) social relations between people d) mental conceptions of the world, embracing knowledges and cultural understandings and beliefs e) labor processes and production of specific goods, geographies, services or...
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Harvey specifies seven “moments” within capitalism, where social change arises:
a) technological and organizational forms of production, exchange and consumption b) relations to nature c) social relations between people d) mental conceptions of the world, embracing knowledges and cultural understandings and beliefs e) labor processes and production of specific goods, geographies,...
Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
By David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
The historical geography of capitalist development is at a key inflexion point in which the geographical configurations of power are rapidly shifting at the very moment when the temporal dynamic is facing very serious constraints. Three percent compound growth (generally considered the minimum satisfactory growth rate for a healthy capitalist...