- For example, Ian Berry, “ Monsanto to Buy Planting Technology Company, ” Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023047076045774221621 32896528.
- Sleep Dealer, directed by Alex Rivera (Vaya Entertainment, 2008).
- From a private Facebook post by Christopher Head.
- For example, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, David Graeber writes: “ Hardly surprising: if it were not possible to effectively imprison the majority of people in the world in impoverished enclaves, there would be no incentive for Nike or The Gap to move production there to begin with. Given a free movement of people, the whole neoliberal project would collapse. This is another thing to bear in mind when people talk about the decline of ‘ sovereignty ’ in the contemporary world: the main achievement of the nation-state in the last century has been the establishment of a uniform grid of heavily policed barriers across the world. It is precisely this international system of control that we are fighting against, in the name of genuine globalization. ” See Tom Mertes and Walden Bello, Walden, a Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible? (London: Verso, 2004), 206.
- A similar conclusion from the other side of the political spectrum, foldling around the point where left anarchism and right libertarianism carry water for one another. Arnold Kling, “ Exit, Voice, and Freedom: An Example, ” Library of Economics and Liberty, August 13, 2009, http:// econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/08/exit\_voice\_and\_2.html.
- For a list and typology of enclaves and exclaves, see Jan S. Krogh ’ s “ Geosite: Enclaves and Exclaves, ” http://geosite.jankrogh.com/exclaves.htm.
- At the same time as the City layer of The Stack integrates individual cities more thoroughly into a general planetary infrastructure of energy, water, labor, and information, it also might shift the economics of that common infrastructure from one that is by necessity held in common to one that becomes, through its use, a revenue platform. Whereas Google generates revenue by reselling the thoughts, preferences, clicks, and pathways of its users, so might the Google City (of activated energy, water, and labor, as well as information) generate revenue by the “ using ” of the very interfaces that compose and comprise the city in situated space: user-citizen-laborers making money for a city ’ s charter investors by the simple arcs of their d é rive. The ambient urban interface is a cash cow for the right cloud urbanist. Such are the geopolitics of the City layer of The Stack.
- See Elysium, directed by Neill Blomkamp (Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2013). As when Ukrainians seized the semisecret palace of deposed President Yanukovych, only to discover a museum of kitsch gold toilet seats, the audience of Elysium could only be disappointed with the incredible lack of imagination (and taste) exhibited by those who would abscond with the planet ’ s remaining wealth for their own benefit. That they would use the lives of billions of people for kindling is one thing; that they would purchase such dull garden-variety bourgeoisie, is the insult on top of insult. Dictators these days have no taste.
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