{"id":1347,"date":"2010-09-29T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/09\/29\/setting\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:59:00","slug":"setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/09\/29\/setting\/","title":{"rendered":"setting"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Byrne has a great, observation- and photo-rich post from Detroit (Don’t Forget the Motor City<\/a>) that relates back to some of the themes I touched on when I posted about<\/a> that city’s decline and potential reinvention as an near science-fictional green city. Julien Temple’s Requiem for Detroit<\/a> (as David points out) provides some context for that.<\/p>\n

I’ve been a little too busy to post here recently, but I have been adding to the Shadow Blog<\/a>, and most recently I seem to be getting captivated by visually arresting posts like David’s, Transversalinflections’ Thoughts and a song<\/a> (and this piece on artist Monika Cicho\u0144<\/a>), some wonderful posts from Matthew Flanagan’s Landscape suicide<\/a>, Next Nature<\/a> (like this compilation<\/a> of bizarre oil-death-glam fashion photos), Ron Burnett’s<\/a> blog, and other things in that vein.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, tonight’s sunset from here looked momentarily like this:<\/p>\n

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Add to that the last slow chirps of early autumn’s few remaining crickets (their chirping slows down, at a predictable rate, as it cools), and a bat still flittering between the trees (a good sign, since their populations have dropped considerably<\/a> in the last few years), and there you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Byrne has a great, observation- and photo-rich post from Detroit (Don’t Forget the Motor City) that relates back to some of the themes I touched on when I posted about that city’s decline and potential reinvention as an near science-fictional green city. Julien Temple’s Requiem for Detroit (as David points out) provides some context […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[689354],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-image_nation","tag-detroit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4IC4a-setting","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9342,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2017\/07\/10\/detroit-as-template-for-urban-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":1347,"position":0},"title":"Detroit as template for urban change?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"July 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently visited Detroit (for the\u00a0ASLE \"Rust\/Resistance\" conference) and was interested in seeing how it's changed since I wrote\u00a0this (brief) piece. 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