In Wake in Fright, a man in very white suit tries to get out of town, end of contract time. Whiter than white, thinks he has shaken off that hint of indentured labour.
The introductory paragraphs of “In Praise of Usura,” written with Melinda Cooper:
There are a few people I would have like to have seen speak, but missed. One of them was Lauren Berlant in Melbourne. By all accounts wonderful. Another was Saskia Sassen, who I’ve heard/seen before, but to see her talk about now “[h]aving a significant Starbucks presence is a pretty significant indicator of the degree of connectedness to the form of highly caffeinated, free-spending capitalism that got us into this mess.” “This mess”, presumably, implying the current calamities around banking and finance.
The best – or possibly, the easiest – way to describe all this is that it’s structured like a computer game. There are levels, each one more difficult than the previous: successively bigger and nastier monsters to kill or evade but, also, if one is quick enough to find them, things placed around the various levels to help you get through them (medipacks, BFGs, friendly scientists, and so on).
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