Peeling off the wallpaper: Capitalism, Coronavirus and Consumerism

Rik Worth
5 min readSep 1, 2020

“The factories are born, thrive briefly, turn to husks as the hand lettered signs above the shops give way to corporate logo; The same insignia reiterated; the same faerie ring of names about each city centre; the same architecture: Docklands über alles. And each town stamped from the same diseases potato in this great and final wallpapering of England.” — Alan Moore, “The

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Rik Worth

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