Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the Media and Film department have a project going called “Naming Capitaism”. The whole thing is quite cryptic: the location and proper name of the school or department aren’t given anywhere, but the phone number indicates it could be a London institution. Or is it a School of Media and Film that has a department of Oriental and African Studies? They spelled my first name wrong, as usual (what is so difficult about E-R-I-K?), and published it without asking me first. Perhaps that school needs a department of communication studies, offering classes in media planning, creative writing, copy-editing and proof-reading before their next project.

Other than that, I quite agree that Capitaism needs to be renamed. I certainly do not know what the word means.