New Left Review 69

CONTENTS Isidro López, Emmanuel Rodríguez: The Spanish Model Catapulted from backwater status into financialized modernity, Spain is now the latest frontier of the Eurozone crisis. Emergence of the Iberian bubble economy, distortions of its growth pattern—and eruption of protests against a compliant political class. Andrei Platonov: On the First Socialist Tragedy Reflections from 1934 on man, technology and the dialectic of nature. Frailties and dangers of our advance within—and against—an unyielding environment. John Grahl: A Capitalist Contrarian John Grahl surveys the work of dissident French economist Jean-Luc Gréau. Centre-right critique of the ascendancy of financial markets and unorthodox solutions for the global economic crisis. Chin-tao Wu: Scars and Faultlines The art of Doris Salcedo as test-case for the complex interaction of aesthetics and commerce. For works aiming to commemorate lives lost in Colombia’s civil wars, what are the consequences—economic, ethical, critical—of integration into the circuits of both memory and market? Allan Sekula, Noël Burch: The Forgotten Space The oceans as neglected but indispensable medium for globalized industry. Snapshots from the maritime landscape of exploitation. Benno Teschke: Fetish of Geopolitics Responding to Gopal Balakrishnan in NLR 68, Teschke underscores the problematic nature of Carl Schmitt’s accounts of colonial expansion and the inter-state system. Against these, a programme for a revised Marxist geopolitics. Andrew Bacevich: Tailors to the Emperor Origins of the Bush doctrine in the thought of Albert Wohlstetter. Preemptive war and constant militarism as outcomes of a vision geared to gaining the tactical edge—but blind to the historical record of us foreign policy and incapable of strategic thought. BOOK REVIEWS Robin Blackburn on Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Demystifying the origins and ideological ascendancy of human-rights discourse. Peter Osborne on François Dosse, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives. Crossed biography of the two thinkers, shedding new light on their respective contributions. Tariq Ali on Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. The political formation of one of America’s most gifted black orators.