The Drowned World / JG Ballard
The Migrant Image / T.J. Demos
‘The depot ship had been a gambling steamer and floating vice
A way for corporate power to disguise its own dealings and ‘in-
den, moored beyond the five-mile limit outside Messina or Bei-
crease forms of inequality by absenting itself from regulatory
rut, or in the shelter of some estuarine creek under the blander,
mechanisms, taxation, and the spotlight of legal and financial
more tolerant skies south of the equator.’ P93
scrutiny’ ‘Areas of exception have also proliferated in the geography of
John Donne - “World within world, each man an island unto
global capital, allowing financial bodies to operate outside the
himself, swimming through seas of archipelagos…” (later in this
state’s borders’
poem Donne says ‘ask not for whom the bell tolls’)
‘A related cause and consequence of neoliberalism is the construction of the financial offshore, according to which multina-
‘But gradually, as the exertion of pulling the cart cleared their
tionals are able to make enormous profits by circulating their
heads and made them move in step, the men between the shafts
capital through complex networks of financial exchange via
began to sing what sounded like the lay of an old Haitian cargo
semilegal and ethically dubious mechanisms; as a result, they
cult, a deep crooning melody that again underlined their ambiv-
are able to pay virtually no taxes to the nations and states where
alent attitude toward Kerans.’ P140
they operate, defining further heights of wealth differentiation and an emerging model of accumulation by dispossession’ p 161. 156