Occupation: Professor Birth: October 31, 1935
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained..
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It i….
My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are ….
Money must exist before it can be turned into capital..
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequen….
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake….
Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of c….
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value..
People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one bit, so far. We have ….
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate..
What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs..
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space..
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself..
We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would li….
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order b….
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist..
Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital..
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, thou….
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in s….
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city..
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds popu….