And I notice two days before the show opens that Balcerowicz of Poland and Becker of the University of Chicago continue to agree: the markets are reviving, back off from regulation. Maybe they should spend less time giving each other Nobel prizes.
And yet, under our very noses, […] a group of immigrant workers in Chicago occupy the factory that is going to fire them, demanding severance pay. Apparently they hadn’t received the Thatcherite news bulletin that “there is no alternative.”
Allan Sekula, “‘PRELIMINARY NOTES’ (Or How Not To Get a Grant From the NEA),” in Polonia and Other Fables (Chicago and Warsaw: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2009), 63. Original emphasis.