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Reading: Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein, award-winning bestselling author of No Logo, will be reading from her new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Thursday night at the MacMilan Theatre.
Klein's new book once again attacks big-business and capitalism. She investigates how corporations often use disasters, natural or manmade, to implement profit-making predatory capitalist policies that exploit the vulnerable. Read reviews of Shock Doctrine here.
Along with the book, Klein has a short film (7 minutes long) at this years TIFF with the same name. The Shock Doctrine is co-directed with Y Tu Mama Tambien and Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron.
Reading:
Thursday, September 6th, 7PM
MacMilan Theatre
80 Queen's Park Crescent
University of Toronto, Faculty of Music
Edward Johnson Building
The reading will include an interview with Carol Off.
Tickets available at all
Signed book and ticket package is $45
General admission is $20
Student admission (with valid ID) is $15
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On her website, Miss Klein get's a nod from Howard Zinn....that's good enough for me. And from scotta's post, it looks like her book get's under the skin of all the right people.
I'm sorry but I don't quite see how you could infer anything about me by one-scentance post, especially to put me in the bucket of 'the right people'. I can only assume you have
A) Read both 'Rebel Sell' and 'No Logo' and have formed some concrete opinions on the kind of people who would recommend either-or
B) Are a Naomi Klein-Ad busters kinda guy.
I try my best, when posting to the internet, to not invoke the greater-internet-F***wad theory and talk to people any differently than I might when in person.
I can only assume ( as you haven't really posted that much other than a drive-by swipe), believe I'm some sort of SUV-loving, GAP wearing(is that supposed to capitalized?) capitalist pig. Not going into pointless detail, I'll simply gently affirm that I am far, far short of any such characterization (Again, you haven't said as much, but you didn't say much at all other than to insult me)
I don't buy (get it?) Mz. Klein's theories, and I greatly enjoyed both 'Rebel Sell' and Heath's other book, 'Efficient Society'. Other than pointing out that there are non-right wing theories opposed to Naomi, I didn't intend to post anything else.
I agree with her and even some of what Heath says in his book.
I must say, upon superficial perusal, it looked to be a bit of word association - shock and awe, shock therapy, electro shock - I'm not sure about the tangible connections between those things.