reviews : Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance

According to the editors' view, clearly substantiated by material evidence presented in this collection, a radically new political dynamic is taking place on the European continent. In her effort to get trustworthy spoken evidence, the playwright, Gillian Slovo, tried to gather information on the riots by setting up a confidential telephone line and talking to some of the community leaders, but substantial material was eventually obtained from documentary filmmakers working on the same issue. [...]considering the vast amount of literature dedicated to the 2008 crisis that is firmly based on political economy's systematic stance - such as Varoufakis's Global Minotaur (2011) or Seymour's Against Austerity (2014) - it is somehow surprising that the authors consult almost none of it when dealing with contradictions of contemporary capitalism. [...]although meticulously elaborated, most of the approaches lack the systematic perspective necessary in confronting the complexity of actual capitalist dynamics.