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Detroit as template for urban change?

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 10, 2017 | 5 Comments »

I recently visited Detroit (for the ASLE “Rust/Resistance” conference) and was interested in seeing how it’s changed since I wrote this (brief) piece. Given how little time I spent there, my impressions aren’t worth much, but here they are.

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The ecology of Syrian/Kurdish freedom

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2015 | 5 Comments »

Eco-theorists may recognize the title of this post as a variation on the title of Murray Bookchin’s audacious and deeply influential (for many, including myself) 1982 book The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (pdf here). What’s little known to anyone following recent news about the war in Syria is that an 18,300 sq. […]

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Ukraine & the threat of direct democracy

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2014 | 3 Comments »

“Power to the millions, not to the millionaires” (#Leftmaidan)   Three forms of democracy vie with each other in Ukraine today. The first of these is what we might call authoritarian democracy. This is a hybrid of democracy and authoritarian rule, in which partially developed democratic institutions can be relatively easily played off against each […]

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The Occupation

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on October 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »

The metaphor of “occupation” strikes me as a provocative one not only for what the activists in Manhattan and elsewhere are doing, but for what they are struggling against. Some, and perhaps many, of these are people without traditional “occupations,” so they are occupying themselves by re-occupying the public spaces that have been occupied for […]

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Reforest Wall Street

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on October 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

While I’ve been too busy to follow the Wall Street occupation very closely, let alone participate in any but the most vicarious ways, I’m encouraged by the persistence of its participants. Isn’t it time Americans started saying basta! to government of the lobbyists, by the politicians, and for the corporations? Here’s a collection of links […]

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amidst the ruins of Motor City

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 13, 2009 | 20 Comments »

As goes Motor City, so should go the world – or at least eco-activists might like to argue that. The archetypal home of American car culture, Detroit, has been decaying for years. It’s now collapsed from a city of two million to less than half of that, and in the process it has opened up […]

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