[Note] The end of capitalism by D. Harvey

Capitalism will never fall on its own. it will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. it will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. it will have to be dispossessed.

Source: Harvey, D. (2010). The enigma of capital and the crisis of capitalism. London: Oxford University Press., p. 260

[Note] Those " Creative Cities" created by unproductive rentiers by D. Harvey

What is now so striking is the increasing power of the unproductive and parasitic rentiers, not simply the owners of land and all the resources that reside therein, but the owners of assets, the all-powerful bondholders, the owners of independent money power (which has become a paramount means of production in its own right), and the owners of patents and property rights that are simply claims on social labour freed of any obligation to mobilise that social labour for productive uses. The parasitic forms of capital are now in the ascendant. We see their representatives gliding through the streets in limousines and populating all the upmarket restaurants and penthouses in all the major global cities of the world – New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, São Paulo, Sydney ...

[News] some old news about the recessino in US video industries

總體經濟衰退的時候，誰都跑不掉。不過據說有一個部門沒在怕的，那就是電視電影業。一直以來好萊塢被認為是可以在衰退中持盈保泰的部門，理由不外乎是消費者的娛樂支出相對不受景氣影響。曾經有很長一段時間，電影票便宜到是窮人和有錢人共享的娛樂活動（雖然有時間先後的差別），電視則是比水龍頭還厲害插上電開關打開就有得看又不用繳費。雖然現在電影票貴了，電視接上付費頻道後也是一直讓人掏錢，不過消費者成癮的閱聽習慣似乎一樣讓電視電影業不受衰退影響。

[News]老牌電影製作公司Morgan Creek 銀行帳戶凍結

好萊塢製片商欠錢還不出，面臨財務危機又一條…

這次是曾經製作《俠盜王子羅賓漢》（Kevin Costner帥氣出演那部）、《王牌威龍》的老牌製片公司Morgan Creek，因為欠日本發行商一大筆錢還不出來，被法院凍結銀行存款，被一堆包商和員工追著討錢，非常糗，工作進度被迫停擺。 Morgan Creek以自營製片公司之姿成立於1988年，也就是美電影業受惠於錄影帶與付費頻道等新通路成長，產業規模加速擴張的年代。同期間崛起的還有New Line、Miramax，以及拍過《 第一滴血》系列、《魔鬼終結者》1與2的Carolco。