The author of No Logo has a new book that names the latest
stage of capital—The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism. Her point is this: In recent years, capital has
absorbed major disasters into its profit-making logic. The
tsunami of 2004, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, 9/11—all have
offered fresh (and spectacular) opportunities for the extraction of
surplus value. With this turn in her thinking, the Marxism of Klein
meets the Marxism of Mike Davis. (Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave,
652-4255. 7:30 pm, $5.)

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...