Carlo Nangeroni, Elementi in movimento, 1972
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

The rise of Barcelona to prominence among the cities of Europe has been “in part based on its steady amassing of symbolic capital and its accumulation of marks of distinction” from its architectural heritage to its Catalan history. These unique qualities are a source of rents for the tourist industry, which brings homogenizing commodification in its wake, so that “The later phases of waterfront development look like every other in the western world: the stupefying congestion of the traffic leads to pressures to put boulevards through parts of the old city, multinational stores replace local shops … and Barcelona loses some of its marks of distinction.”

Tom Slee, What's Yours is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy

by Shuji Terayama / 寺山修司
From the book: われに五月を

Lot in Sodom (1933) dir. James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Florette, Paris, January 1944

Milan Knížák. Destroyed Music, 1965

Capitalism is what produces more than a billion people going hungry or malnourished or vulnerable to famines in an age of abundant food production as never witnessed in human history. It is what keeps one in three persons from having access to safe potable water. It is what gives preferential treatment to housing speculators over those needing shelter. It is the development of profitable and ever deadlier wars, with ever more devastating weaponry, the diffusion of mass imprisonment, mass displacement, mass migration, mass death and vast riches and political privileges for a small fraction of humanity.

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Socialist States and the Environment: Lessons for Eco-Socialist Futures