Against the great defeat of the world

Cities in fiction: Perambulations with John Berger

“…He makes us witness the clash between a mentality of survival and intergenerational continuity on the one hand, and that of the market mentality of the capitalist outside world on the other (Taylor 2006). In these novels the peasants seem to have preserved a sense of history and an experience of time and place, as opposed to that propagated by late capitalism which seems to revel in obliterating the past and creating spatial deliria (Berger 1998). Berger"s peasantry tales thus offer us a tangible reminder of a different way of living.…”

The disappearance of Yugoslavia on the market of global capital

“…"Невидљиве моћи" деловања на масу данас имају глобалне корпорације 3 које владају светом, посебно Светска банка и Светска трговинска организација, Европска банка за обнову и развој, до те мере да се може тврдити да су узурпирали моћ држава и локалних власти (Barnet, Cavanagh, 1994;Berger, 1999). Оне имају моћ транформације, не зато што поседују моћ већ зато што је примењују и спроводе.…”

“…The "invisible powers" affecting the masses are now in the hands of global corporations 3 that rule the world, in particular the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to the extent that it can be argued that they have usurped the authority of states and local governments (Barnet, Cavanagh, 1994;Berger, 1999). They have the power to transformation, not because they possess the power, but because they apply and implement it.…”

The left and King Lear

“…58 That is what happens in the world of King Lear: hell is denounced; and that world ceases to be hopeless. The whole play (like the whole of history, we trust!)…”