There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.