Evil Paradises: Dreamwor of Neoliberalism | 
| Creators: Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk
Publisher: New Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 79556
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 1595583920
Dewey Decimal Number: 307
EAN: 9781595583925
ASIN: 1595583920
Publication Date: June 26, 2008
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An extraordinary group of thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of City of Quartz, explore future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism.
Filled with "stories of greed, exploitation and enough conspicuous consumption to make a hedge fund manager blush" (Los Angeles Times) and featured in Utne Reader, In These Times, and New Left Review, Evil Paradises is a global guidebook to capitalist "utopias" being constructed in cities, deserts, and even in the middle of the sea.
This fascinating world tour takes us to Dubai, where a gilded archipelago of private islands offers "supreme lifestyles" to the super-rich and famous; Medellin and Kabul, where drug lords—in many ways textbook capitalists—are redefining conspicuous consumption in fortified palaces; Hong Kong and Cairo, where the local nouveaux riches take shelter in fantasy Californias, while their maids sleep in rooftop chicken coops; and a dozen other places around the world where unfettered capitalism and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Contributors include: Judit Bodnar, Patrick Bond, Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Joe Day, Marco d'Eramo, Anthony Fontenot, Marina Forti, Forrest Hylton, Sara Lipton, Ajmal Maiwandi, China Mieville, Don Mitchell, Timothy Mitchell, Dennis Rodgers, Laura Ruggeri, Emir Sader, Rebecca Schoenkopf, and Jon Wiener.
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 tedious September 13, 2007
5 out of 23 found this review helpful
The book is tedious and unevenly written. It has added no new information or insight for this reader. Much of the material has nothing to do with what are undoubtedly the ravages of neo-liberalism.
Karl Hiller
Just in Case you wanna know how bad things really are... July 26, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
By the time you're done reading about the guy in the US who is arrested while delivering pampers because the city streets he walked all his life were privatized, or about the offshore hotels inhabited by the super rich so they never pay taxes in any country, or about Ted Turner's autonomous kingdom in Patagonia you'll start to put two and two together. This book does what I haven't seen anyone else do: look at the world we're heading towards by checking out the mini-'utopias' that the planet's plutocracy fashion for themselves in denial of inequality they produce. As the Dude put it: "New s@#t has come to light." Now what are we gonna do about it?
 Max Rotholz, London July 20, 2007
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is an important and timely book. It brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and takes us on a global tour too easily overlooked. Highly recommended.
Evil Paradises: A Seminal Analysis of our Dadaist Reality July 18, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
In "Evil Paradises", Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk describe the consequences of neoliberal politics across the world. From Dubai to Kabul via Hong Kong, Cairo or Los Angeles, this stunning analysis takes shape around a rich collection of essays from leading academic researchers including Sara Lipton, Jon Wiener and Marina Forti. "Evil Paradises" represents an essential work in the search for a description of our phantasmagoric reality. Highly recommended to anyone interested to learn about the consequences of global economy and politics.
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