Reviews for The future of the World Trade Organization

The average rating for The future of the World Trade Organization based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-02 00:00:00 Pamela Boren yyyeeeaaahhh basically I thought he was a racist old git. Like I thought it would be interesting because at the moment I'm into stuff about the body that goes beyond simplistic semiotic theory ("the body as social symbol" etc), also I really like the translator, Stephen Muecke, and he's put some of Gil's concepts to good use in his own work. But I read the first 20 pages or so and realised I was making a terrible mistake. He kept chugging away at his dichotomy between "modern" versus "traditional" societies on the basis of some fluffy disembedded metaphysical dick-pulling without even making a vague gesture of justifying that distinction on ethical or political terms. Why should I give two shits about his nuanced metaphysics of time if that metaphysics systematically relies on us all assuming that the peoples of the Third World "don't have history"? And I mean, he was writing this in France in the mid-eighties, so surely he is to some degree familiar with the collapse of historical metanarratives, Western colonial dualisms, etc. - you'd think he'd manage a passing mention of these critiques at the very least. So I thought the book was not just ethically problematic, but theoretically bald. Sometime in the future I might be desperate and bored enough to plod through and salvage what I can, but definitely not for a while...

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-27 00:00:00 Sergey Li Very well written, gives good background on the matter.