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PHOTOS | Flávio Colker (17 art items)

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PulpRoman rated Justice League: The New Frontier

Justice League: The New Frontier 7/10

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration would later show, a terrorist attack. When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty. What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up. Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth. During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that Russians needed large quantities of vodka to get through the day. Under capitalism, however, Russians drinks more than twice as much alcohol as they used to - and they are reaching for harder painkillers as well.

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PulpRoman rated The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 7/10

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PulpRoman rated A Hunger Artist

A Hunger Artist 5/10

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My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die. There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority. I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others—of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reread. I just love this book. Jane Austen is a great writer. Pride and Prejudice is a fabulous book but once you’ve read it, you’ve covered most of Austen’s oeuvre as most of them follow the along the same theme. This is a complete opposite. Lady Susan is an ‘immoral woman’(...oh you saucy little ankle showing vixen!) and I absolutely love it. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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