Gregory Williams – författare

The author, a law professor and former deputy sheriff, discusses the problems attending the extensive discretion given to police officers on the job. The book focuses primarily on the decision to arrest and on the development of the mechanisms to control the discretionary nature of that decision. Convinced that individual prejudices can and do play a part in arrest decisions, Professor Williams evaluates alternatives designed to produce impartial and controlled law enforcement. He concludes that only through the collective efforts of the police, state and local government officials, and the judiciary can effective guidelines be formulated and implemented. Harvard Law Review

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.

You can buy insurance for your car or your house, but in the ruthless, multi-trillion-dollar shadow economy of global finance, you can also buy insurance against the catastrophic collapse of an entire sovereign nation. This high-stakes derivative is known as a Sovereign Credit Default Swap (CDS). If a country like Greece, Argentina, or Russia defaults on its national debt, a Sovereign CDS pays out billions to the holder. The terrifying reality is that you do not even need to own the country's bonds to buy the insurance. This allows aggressive hedge funds and vulture investors to actively place massive, leveraged bets on the economic destruction of millions of citizens, heavily incentivizing them to mathematically accelerate a nation's financial ruin. This book breaks down the obscure, deeply unregulated architecture of sovereign derivatives. We explore the opaque clearinghouses, the political extortion tactics of vulture funds, and how these invisible contracts nearly detonated the entire Eurozone during the 2010 debt crisis. Peer into the darkest casino on Earth. Understand how Wall Street engineered a highly lucrative mechanism to profit directly from national despair.

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop.