[lbo-talk] Suburban revolt against Obama?
James Heartfield
Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Jan 25 01:16:13 PST 2010
The plague of bird flu will erupt out of Java, not Suffolk
Mike Davis
'The prospect of a new plague unleashed in the shantytowns of Lagos, Kinshasa or Nairobi, in other words, is virtually apocalyptic'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/07/comment.politics1
Isn't this the old nineteenth century hysteria about disease emanating in the miasma of the poor ('residuum') - only here the fear of the urban disease is relocated onto the 'World of Slums'
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