Hidden in the squatter communities of Mumbai: workshops that depend on the slave labor of thousands of children. The Indian newsweekly Frontline reports.
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- --news from Robert Neuwirth-- I recently (January 2020) signed a contract with Beacon Press for a new book of reportage on the economics of community. I'm also working on a collection of short stories about economics called The Book of Derivatives. Backstory: I've written two previous books: Stealth of Nations (on the global growth of the informal economy) & Shadow Cities (on the global growth of squatter communities). I live in New York City and do most of my writing on manual typewriters.
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Hello,
You writed a comment on worldchanging.com that interested me, and i would like to know if zizek talk about "hacking the built city" or why you make this parallel,
thanks,
Marc
Hi Marc. For those that didn't see it, I commented on a post on 'worldchanging.com' about a group providing free wifi in Montreal -- no passwords, no barriers to getting online. They claimed to be 'hacking the built city' and I responded by saying the phrase sounded like it could have come from social critic Slavoj Zizek.
So, to clarify: No, Zizek did not use the phrase, so far as I know. I was (unsuccessfully) trying to be tongue in cheek, suggesting that guys like Zizek are great at coming up with great phrases that give great impact to ideas that are perhaps not so big.
I support free wifi. But I don't think it needs to be written up as revolutionary to be a good thing.
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