Yeah, I Fell In Love, Come Kiss Me, Wake Me Up,

Yeah, I fell in love, come kiss me, wake me up, 

I hope you wish me luck even when I’m down on my knees.

Yeah, I fell in love, come kiss me, wake me up.

Only you~

Only you

can wake me up~

Dude literally received death threats from Italian fascists for his research on Italian cuisine

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53. old new rules?

a review of 'before european hegemony' by janet l. abu-lughod

hi! here is my latest review, of before european hegemony: the world system, a.d. 1250-1350, by janet l. abu-lughod. it's a slightly long one - i summarise her main arguments and offer some comments on the disappearance of african economies, the end of history, and the marxist roots of world systems theory. i hope you enjoy!

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when rome falls, yves olade

[ID: “you drank so much sunlight you’re drowning in it.” end ID]

Coherence is mutilation. I want disorder.

Clarice Lispector, from “The Departure of the Train,” as cited in Olivia Sudjic’s Exposure (via lifeinpoetry)

The industrialization of the South was not anticipated by the dependency theory of the 1960s and ’70s. It held that the capitalist center must block any advanced industrial development in the so-called periphery, so that it remains a supplier of raw materials, tropical agricultural products, and labor-intensive simple industrial production, which is to be exchanged for the advanced industrial products of the center. Few analysts had foreseen the industrialization of the South as driven by trade with and investment by metropolitan capitalism.

However, the South’s industrialization came to provide a (temporary) solution to capitalism’s economic and political malaise in the 1970s, manifested on one side by a declining rate of profit, the oil crisis, and pressure from the labor movement in the North for ever-higher wages and, on the other, by the national liberation struggles of the South. Yet the South’s industrialization was not a concession to its demands; quite the contrary. Rather than a step towards a more equal world, it has resulted in a deepening of imperialist relations on a global scale.

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Neoliberalism has brought about a new global division of labor in which the global South has become “the workshop of the world.” Global capitalism increasingly polarizes the world into Southern “production economies” and Northern “consumption economies.” The main driver behind this process is unquestionably the low wage level in the South. As such, the structure of today’s global economy has been profoundly shaped by the allocation of labor to industrial sectors according to differential rates of exploitation internationally.

The enticement for big business to outsource production or to invest in Greenfield projects in the South is considerable. The difference in wage levels is not just a factor of one to two, but often one to ten or fifteen. Indeed, in 2010, of the world’s three-billion-strong workforce, approximately 942 million were classified by the International Labor Organization (ILO) as “working poor” (almost one-in-three workers worldwide live on under $2 a day)

Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices byTorkil Lauesen and Zak Cope

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