----- Original Message ---- From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 12:16:13 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Suburban revolt against Obama?
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' ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk