Wayne's language is not that of renewal-through-destruction (and here Schumpterian capitalism and fascism, in most other respects entirely opposed, find themselves in sympathy) but of philanthropic meliorism.

the permanent panoptic vigilance of a bloated managerial strata determined to over-compensate in order to fully ensure it is meeting central government's demands

there is a certain frisson in seeing a major Hollywood film refusing to unequivocally condemn terrorism

the hotel - itself a palimpsest of fantasies and atrocities, an echo chamber of memories and anticipations

If, as Wendy Brown has so persuasively argued, neoliberalism and neoconservatism can be made compatible only at the level of dreamwork, then Children of Men renders this oneiric suturing as a nightmare.

Permanent employees tend to be quietist to keep (what they think of as) their job security, whereas precarious workers, being expendable, have no power at all.

the oneiric form of The Box collapses into its content - the box, like the dream according to Freud, fulfils our wishes.

the consentimental affective regime imposed by reality TV, lachrymose advertising and soap operas

concluding in bathos

a quotidian cavilling against the wipe-clean sheen of the wall