In the World Interior of Capitalism

[alice malice]

Looks interesting, thanks Dave.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the end phase of globalization, the world system completed its
> development and, as a capitalist system, came to determine all conditions of
> life. Sloterdijk takes the Crystal Palace in London, the site of the first
> world exhibition in 1851, as the most expressive metaphor for this
> situation. The palace demonstrates the inevitable exclusivity of
> globalization as the construction of a comfort structure, that is, the
> establishment and expansion of a world interior whose boundaries are
> invisible, yet virtually insurmountable from without, and which is inhabited
> by one and a half billion winners of globalization; three times this number
> are left standing outside the door.
>
> http://politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=9780745647685
>
> The Crystal Palace
>
> http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/crystal-palace.html
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