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The Geography of It All

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Harvey, D. (2011). The Geography of It All. In Harvey, D. The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism. Profile Books, pp. 140-214

an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)

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The result is a doubly serious lacuna. We do not well understand what happens where and why and how events here affect conditions elsewhere.

—p.155 by David Harvey
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The result is a doubly serious lacuna. We do not well understand what happens where and why and how events here affect conditions elsewhere.

—p.155 by David Harvey
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The conquest of space and time and the mastery of the world (of both 'mother earth' and the world market) appear in many capitalist fantasies as displaced but sublime masculine expressions of sexual desire and millennial charismatic belief. Is this the fetish belief that impels onward the ever rising 'animal spirits' of the financiers? Is this why so many financiers and hedge fund wizards are men? Is this how people feel when they bet the whole of the New Zealand currency in one go? What astonishing power to ride the world and bend it to one's will!

I mean I think the major reason hedge fund managers overwhelmingly male is cus only men have the power to become successful hedge fund managers, but his other point is quite valid (aligns with my idea for a post on why people go into finance, if not just for money)

—p.157 by David Harvey 7 years, 1 month ago

The conquest of space and time and the mastery of the world (of both 'mother earth' and the world market) appear in many capitalist fantasies as displaced but sublime masculine expressions of sexual desire and millennial charismatic belief. Is this the fetish belief that impels onward the ever rising 'animal spirits' of the financiers? Is this why so many financiers and hedge fund wizards are men? Is this how people feel when they bet the whole of the New Zealand currency in one go? What astonishing power to ride the world and bend it to one's will!

I mean I think the major reason hedge fund managers overwhelmingly male is cus only men have the power to become successful hedge fund managers, but his other point is quite valid (aligns with my idea for a post on why people go into finance, if not just for money)

—p.157 by David Harvey 7 years, 1 month ago

a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871. Following the defeat of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, the French Second Empire collapsed, and the French Third Republic rose up in its place (initially intended as a provisional government but it ended up lasting until 1940) to continue the war with Prussia, which resulted in a 4-month-long siege of Paris (ending Jan 28), which laid the groundwork for the Commune

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in desperation Napoleon III went to war against Bismarck's Germany and lost, and in the vacuum that followed arose the Paris Commune, one of the greatest revolutionary episodes in capitalist urban history

—p.168 by David Harvey
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in desperation Napoleon III went to war against Bismarck's Germany and lost, and in the vacuum that followed arose the Paris Commune, one of the greatest revolutionary episodes in capitalist urban history

—p.168 by David Harvey
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just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

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They initiated a powerful though inchoate movement to build another kind of world

—p.171 by David Harvey
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They initiated a powerful though inchoate movement to build another kind of world

—p.171 by David Harvey
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(adjective) not conducive to health; unwholesome

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other unruly elements, along with insalubrious industries

—p.176 by David Harvey
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other unruly elements, along with insalubrious industries

—p.176 by David Harvey
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make (something abstract) more concrete or real

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To the degree, for example, that states are reifications are mental conceptions

—p.197 by David Harvey
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To the degree, for example, that states are reifications are mental conceptions

—p.197 by David Harvey
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