by kspence | Jun 3, 2013 | Detroit, Imaging the City, Neoliberalism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics
A few years ago Time magazine bought a house in Indian Village (one of Detroit's wealthiest neighborhoods) and housed its staff there for a year to follow what appeared to be Detroit's slow death. And now with the presence of the Emergency Financial Manager...
by kspence | Feb 25, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33187727[/vimeo] I had a chance to check out Nelson George’s Brooklyn Boheme (BB) last week at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance Theater. I’d urge everyone interested in the concept of the creative class, in black late twentieth...
by kspence | Feb 17, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism, Sports |
Today Michael Jordan turns 50. In thinking through what this means I read a piece by Wright Thompson who wrote the best article about Michael Jordan and aging I believe I've ever read. I also turned to Foucault–whose work I've been teaching in...
by kspence | Feb 3, 2013 | Black Leadership, Neoliberalism
Yesterday I attended the funeral of Vernon Nathaniel Dobson, longtime pastor of Union Baptist Church, associate and fellow traveler of Martin Luther King jr., and a member of Baltimore's Goon Squad. (yes. Goon Squad. more on that later.) I am in Baltimore...
by kspence | Jan 28, 2013 | Neoliberalism
I'm back in the classroom for the first time in a minute (I had the fall semester off). In an attempt to save trees I'm placing the syllabus here. First up? Blade Runner. Imag(in)ing Cities
by kspence | Dec 7, 2012 | Imaging the City, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – We Almost Lost Detroit from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. on Vimeo.
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