what seems at stake is not the swinging about of the stock market, and not whether any of the reactive measure that have been put into place so far "work" but more (a) what the move ultimately is that is being hammered out now--the "big" one and then, more broadly (b) the extent to which the collapse of neoliberalism comes to be reflected in a discursive shift both at the level of how the relation of regulation to economic activity is thought about, implemented, adjusted, etc. lagging behind this will be a shift in the dominant ideological framework, the language of staging/describing...
i think the guardian obit is a pretty good summary of the story so far...
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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