30th January 2012 – Peter Geoghegan

Review: Why It’s All Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason

By peterPosted on 30th January 2012Posted in Books, Politics, Society and Culture, Sunday Business PostTagged Egypt, Jameson, Occupy, Paul Mason, Why It's All Kicking Off Everywhere1 Comment

‘It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism,’ Fredric Jameson, a leading theorist of post-modernism, wrote in 2003. Not anymore it isn’t. If the culmination of Francis Fukuyama’s Whiggish ‘End of History’ was the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 – scuttling liberal democracy’s […]

At Edinburgh Sheriff Court

By peterPosted on 30th January 2012Posted in Politics, Scotland, Society and CultureTagged London Review of Books, Occupy, Occupy Edinburgh

Supporters of Occupy Edinburgh were thin on the ground at the city’s sheriff court on Wednesday, 25 January, Robert Burns Day. Only 15 or so activists went to protest against their eviction from St Andrews Square, outside the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland (whose chief executive has just received a £963,000 bonus). ‘Oh, […]

Day: 30th January 2012