by admin | Mar 18, 2009 | Afrofuturism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Metro, originally uploaded by Unbowed. I’m going to Vancouver on Thursday for a conference. I’m presenting the first chapter of my next book on neoliberalism in black politics. Vancouver has a Skytrain that traverses 33 miles through the city. It’s...
by admin | Jan 23, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Education |
Effective immediately, my university is freezing salaries, canceling all searches, and cutting budgets 10%. I’ve talked about this before, thinking that perhaps Obama needed to include the type of cultural creative work in his stimulus package that FDR included...
by admin | Jan 1, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership |
The line of the last four months has been something like the following: I’d never thought I’d live to see this happen. Of course those of us in the states, and even outside, know what “this” means. But what is going on is so much bigger. Hell I...
by admin | Dec 26, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Culture, Neoliberalism |
Important tidbits in a growing story: College endowments drop like a rock. In earlier news, NPR decides to drop News and Notes. Newspapers like the Detroit Free Press go virtual, while other newspapers won’t survive 2009. Book publishers have slashed their...
by admin | Dec 17, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Detroit is the modern city. What we think of when we think of the modern urban condition (from relying on automobiles and freeways to drive, from using cities to house labor for factories, to stereotypes of crime and urban dysfunction) all happened in Detroit first....
by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
According to the Worldwatch Institute, the value of global trade in food has tripled since 1961, and the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold, while population has only doubled. In North America food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500...
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