[with 11/10 updates] Police mobilized in force to remove #OccupyCal tents today. A couple of small groups had managed to set up just two tents after UC Berkeley police confiscated most other ones, following a large rally. There were maybe two hundred people congregated to block off the shock... View full entry
Highly recommend reading, in its entirety, "Not Your Friend: Dissensus and the Police," by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi aka @southsouth, a response to certain olive-branch pleas to the police. But most especially, on political space, she writes: One of the most useful and succinct definitions... View full entry
Following up on Mapping POPOS in NYC yesterday, I woke up to find this next item in my inbox this morning, from the friends at DSGNAGNC, in collaboration with Do-Tank Brooklyn and not an alternative: #whOWNSpace... ...goals are: 1- TO REVEAL conflicting rules and ownerships in the increasingly... View full entry
Privately-Owned Public Open Space (POPOS), or their cousins, POPS (apparently not exactly open, yet accessible)... Spurred by Zuccotti Park, WNYC and NY World ask you "to map and report on New York City's Privately-Owned Public Spaces, aka POPS. We want to figure out how public these public... View full entry
[post was edited Tues. AM.] This just caught my eye: Some great folks are going to be discussing Occupy and public space at Avery Hall, Columbia University. Again, the link... Would love to hear more of what they discuss, if anyone can live blog or something. I am curious. But, I'm having a... View full entry
Note: I'm saving clippings and thoughts in preparation for the event (poster) on Nov. 19th at the VDL Neutra House. (More: see this post; all posts tagged--ahem--"glam"). Saturday servings: This blog post by Joel Olson, on "Whiteness and the 99%" begins to raise some of the issues that pertain... View full entry
Some of you might have noticed that Orhan is hosting a series of talks at the VDL Neutra House in Silverlake, Los Angeles. Aside from doing my part to continue gentrifying the neighborhood, at least with my overaccumulated low-culture, I'll be in conversation with Stefano De Martino on... View full entry
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