“The modern city has been layered haphazardly on top of the old”
“Their only remaining capitalist function is to hoist large blinking billboards on their tar-coated roofs.”
“the layering of decades”
“post-industrial limbo”
“urban performance art”
“the transformation of the garment workers’ struggle into sweatshop kitsch”
“it is an attempt to capture an anti-corporate attitude I see emerging among young activists. This book is hinged on a simple hypothesis that as more people discover the brand name secrets of the global logo web, their outrage will fuel the next big political movement, a vast wave of opposition squarely targeting transnational corporations” but based on observation of underground networks rather than just prediction
students growing more concerned by involvement of corporations in private schools
washroom ads
“academic studies were starting to look more and more like market research”
“institutional priority shifted to those most conducive to private partnership”
growing more concerned with daw away hidden projects and investments of their institutions