"The ultimate world-historical significance - and oddity - of Los Angeles is that it has come to play the double role of utopia and dystopia for advanced capitalism. The same place, as Brecht noted, symbolized heaven and hell... Brecht's desperate ennui was compounded out of strange contradictions. One day he was complaining about how his Santa Monica bungalow was 'too pleasant to work in,' the next he was promoting Los Angeles as a 'hell' of Shelleyan proportions."
26 October 2022
Mike Davis 1946-2022
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