Punching holes in history
本文介绍关于Quinn Slobodian《崩溃资本主义》的交流论坛，该书聚焦“特区”如何在全球空间碎片化中通过在国家领土上打孔、创造法律例外和缺乏民主监督的例外区，并挑战1990年代以来全球化的主流历史叙事。
This article introduces an exchange forum on Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023). The book centres the ‘zone’ in a story about the fragmentation of global space, in which the zone works by ‘punching holes in the territory of the nation-state, creating zones of exception with different laws and no democratic oversight’. Crack-Up Capitalism not only builds on the arguments made by Slobodian in Globalists: The End of Empire the Birth of Neoliberalism, but it also asks to re-evaluate broadly accepted historical narratives about globalisation since the early 1990s.