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June 21, 2007
These badlands in Adelaide are the effects of de-industrialization that resulted from the economic reforms of the 1980s that opened the Australian economy up to the global one. The devastation was most marked in Adelaide and it quickly became a rustbelt.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Ari + graffiti, Adelaide, 2007
The effects of corporate power in the global economy is written on these decaying walls. It's enough to make one an antiglobalization activist trying to nail down the sources of that power. The urban decay sure rubbed the Keating shine off globalization.
It is difficult to find the magic hidden in our urban blight. Is it the dogs barking at the gates of paradise?
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