Saturday, May 13, 2006

Planet of slums

Two-part interview in TomDispatch with Mike Davis, whose new book is Planet of Slums.

UPDATE:

Another interview with Davis here at New Perspectives Quarterly.

5 comments:

  1. and in the slums they are watching TV...

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  2. That guy and Margaret Atwood ought to get together and give birth to a little black hole of despair. Give me Desperate Housewives.

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  3. Is it just me, or is their a fine line between fear mongering and despair mongering?

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  4. I don't know. I suppose despair could be the oppostie of fear in the sense of no longer feeling any concern about danger.

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  5. "Opposite," although "oppostie" should be a word.

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