VIDEO: The Crisis of Credit
BY Jonathan Jarvis*
This video in combination with Naomi Klein's speech at University of Chicago, "Ideas have Consequences: The Wall Street Crisis Should be the End of Neoliberalism," work well together to help make sense of how ideology ("neoliberalism") and political-economic practice (the free market and its obsession with speculation) affect the well-being of everyday people. (Thank you to Seanne Thomas, an extremely conscious and conscientious realtor in the Twin Cities for sharing this! Seanne warned long ago that the housing "boom" would harm the futures of working poor people.)
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
*Jonathan Jarvis is a designer who recently began designing for Google's Creative Lab.
So, this was a very good video and very well done :D- I just wanted to comment that I think it's curious that "irresponsible buyers" are visualized as people who have four kids, are overweight (husband), and smoke. I guess I am not sure how I would have represented them, it is just something that I noticed and think reflects on how society normally sees (or stereotypes) financially irresponsible people.