Seymour, Benedict. 2006. Drowning by Numbers: The Non-Reproduction of New Orleans. Mute, [Article]

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After the actual hurricane that hit New Orleans in late August 2005, came the second hurricane of neo-liberal looting. The vacuum left by the evacuation of the working class population and the storm’s destruction of infrastructure produced the dream conditions for economic 'restructuring'. This ‘disaster-catalysed primitive accumulation’, argues Benedict Seymour, reveals in fast-forward the fire-fighting strategy of a US economy in chronic decline

Item Type:	Article
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event December 2006 Published
Item ID:	17841
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2016 10:30
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2017 10:24
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/17841

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