Evil Paradises by Davis, Mike -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Introduction 1 - Dreamland

Pathological Exuberance Hidden Questions Neoliberal Myths Crony Capitalism Economy as Illusion The Myth of the Market Neoliberalism as Violence Unruly Dreams

2 - Arg-e Jadid: A California Oasis in the Iranian Desert

A Garden of Security Islamic Neoliberalism From Kish to Kitsch

3 - Sand, Fear, and Money in Dubai

Fantasy Levitated Gigantism Miami of the Persian Gulf War Zone Milton Friedman’s Beach Club An Indentured, Invisible Majority

4 - Capital of Chaos: The New Kabul of Warlords and Infidels

Land as Power Architecture as Alchemy Military Strategy as Urban Planning Reconstruction as Myth Impunity as Democracy

5 - Delirious Beijing: Euphoria and Despair in the Olympic Metropolis

The Great Transformation The Price of Olympic Fame The Great Divide A Social Time Bomb Containing Chaos Conclusion: Evil Beijing

6 - “Palm Springs”: Imagineering California in Hong Kong

The Return of the Walled City Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Selling California One Happy Family Conclusion

7 - Johannesburg: Of Gold and Gangsters

What’s in a Name? Johannesburg Top-Down The Neoliberal Drought Resistance

8 - “Nueva Managua”: The Disembedded City

The “Palimpsest” City Nueva Managua The Privatization of Security Roads, Roundabouts, and Road Deaths “Disembedding” the City: The Revolt of the Elites?

9 - Becoming Bourgeois: (Postsocialist) Utopias of Isolation and Civilization

Neo-Hapsburg Kitsch New Enclosures Slaves of the New Bourgeoisie

10 - “Extreme Makeover”: Medellín in the New Millennium

Before and After Disputing Territory, 1985–2002 Tragedy and Farce, 2002–2006

11 - The Most Unjust Country in the World

A Paradise of Latifundias The Legacy of “Late” Slavery Radical Injustice The Agrarian Problem in Neoliberalism

12 - Bunkering in Paradise (or, Do Oldsters Dream of Electric Golf Carts?)

Minnesota: The Mall That Swallowed America Arizona: Senile Utopias

13 - Careless People: It’s the Real Housewives of Orange County’s World; The ...

Hollywood Discovers the OC Epiphany The Real Housewives and Dick Cheney Are Very Bad People Here You May Watch Me Watch TV Barbarian (Me) at the Gates A Literary Interlude, Citing Fitzgerald On Subjectivity

14 - “Hell Is Other People”: Ted Turner’s Two Million Acres 15 - People Like Hicks: The Supreme Court Announces the Antiurban City

A Legitimate Business or Social Purpose People Like Hicks Strollers, Loiterers, Drug Dealers, Roller Skaters, Bird Watchers, Soccer ... A Right the Rich Have Long Had

16 - Hubrispace: Personal Museums and the Architectures of Self-Deification

Club Medici: Origins Everyman, His Castle The Plutocrat as Artist LA Apotheosis: Self-Sanctification, In-Name-Only Bailouts, and the Anti-Edifice The Concrete Stomach vs. the Kremlin of Modernism

17 - Monastery Chic: The Ascetic Retreat in a Neoliberal Age 18 - Floating Utopias: Freedom and Unfreedom of the Seas

Ayn Rand Ahoy The Degradation of Utopia The Freedom of the Seas? “The Captain’s Word Will Be Final” Seasteading as Empire Class Warfare as Bad Comedy

19 - Hives and Swarms: On the “Nature” of Neoliberalism and the Rise of the ...

Life and Death Primal Swarming The Ecological Insurgent

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