There Have Always Been Crises

Two relates links:

• Harold Bloom writes in the New York Times about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the notion of “self-reliance” during hard economic times. (Via Ads Without Products.)
• Steve Shaviro discusses Marx’s crisis theory in relation to Fredric Jameson’s ostensible “pessimism” about the necessity of a future crisis (written prior to 2008).

Both are worth checking out.