Sling it in the Melph for the fools that's looking

Sporty T: Sporty Talkin Sporty '93

For his day job, the Cod heard a pretty compelling talk this summer by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, on the subject of geographies of primitive accumulation.* Long story, but basically the West Indian sugar plantation is the primal scene of capitalism as we know it. Anyway, this bounce classic, which comes to me by way of a Cocaine Blunts post Katrina benefit compilation, reminded me of Dillon's talk. The opening 40 seconds or so offer a neat account of the buying, producing, and distributing crack, mapped onto a landscape of housing projects that don't exist any more, and jails that do. Click the map for details. FYI, headphones might be advisable if listening in public.

*Reprised today, if you happen to be in the greater Ithaca area.