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Hauntological Updates

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Thoughtstylings
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...h a crass Harbor Freight sponsorship ad. Thanks to Steven Sharp, editor of Urbanize LA I now know that underneath all that stucco there’s a handsome 1920s era building: I’m guessing the race to the bottom that is Crapitalism™ and a related disinvestment in public trade schools explains this bizarre architectural decision. The before and after pictures of this building reveal a transformation into what looks like a prison, hostile to any poor soul...

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The Twittering Machine

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Thoughtstylings
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...d I want to find the escape hatch in the Spectacle. Seymour notes that we are in an age in which we are all writing more than we ever did, in the form of posts, texts etc. But he asks are we “more being written than writing?” The book leaves me wanting to disappear into my wood shop to commune with a carefully curated set of had tools for the rest of my days on this earth. I’ve embedded an interview with Seymour on the appropriately named This is...

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Our Hot Streets Are an Opportunity

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Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Design, Transportation, Water and Power
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...a more radical alternative to business as usual. As Mark Fisher says in a book everyone should read, Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative?, The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in t...

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Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

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...You https://t.co/mXxx6zTUhn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2018 In my book, I refer to recycling as "Garbage 2.0." Here's why.https://t.co/8IOYwyLfqF — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) May 29, 2018 The religious hunger that drives Jordan Peterson’s fandom https://t.co/z3c7vU1EAz via @voxdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 2, 2018 Don't forget to turn in your library books at the end of the academic year, lest you be 'roasted in a...

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