What's New With Naomi Klein

*Rather a lot. Looks like, ten years after Seattle 1999, she's figured out that there is no global Left and no world government.

in the past 10 years I have written very little about developments like these. I realised why while reading William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition. (((gets popcorn)))

The book's protagonist, Cayce Pollard, is allergic to brands, particularly Tommy Hilfiger and the Michelin man. So strong is this "morbid and sometimes violent reactivity to the semiotics of t...