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The LA tribute at BLDGBLOG doesn’t quite hit all the reasons I love the city — I’m also very much enamored of the various efforts to create a livable world in the belly of the capitalist beast, and I give that it’s own category — but it comes close. An excerpt: I mean that Los Angeles [...] It’s on fire again today, and while I hope everyone got out safely, it seems like a good time to remember: The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. The International Dark-Sky Association (warning: garish site design) defines light pollution as: Any adverse effect of artificial light, including sky glow, glare, light trespass, light clutter, decreased visibility at night, and energy waste. I first heard about these guys when a commenter in Architectural Record complained that a picture caption that lauded a building for “lighting up [...] All the lights in Los Angeles my neighborhood my apartment have been off for almost thirty minutes and I have to say, the place looks a lot bigger by laptop light. The general darkness is soothing, and then, bursting forth with glowing shininess: a rectangle of backlit information, giving me a glimpse out of my…cave: Behold! [...] I’m turning out all my lights for an hour as part of a Lights Out LA energy conservation project. This is a big sacrifice for me, because I’m afraid of the dark. And I don’t really believe in individual action to fix structural social ills. But I’m feeling generous tonight (and I need to balance [...] I was once told that the English translation of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (friendly Marxists provide the full text here) was horrible, and handed a photocopied package of errata to use while reading. At the time, I thought it was odd that, were the translation really so bad, such an important book [...] No, it’s not a new catholic rock band. Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, whose mission is to: …to assist at-risk and former gang involved youth to become contributing members of our community through a variety of services in response to their multiple needs. Free programs — including counseling, education, tattoo removal, [...] Ezra Klein on Code Pink’s protest of a military recruiting station: Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin says “We feel that it’s our obligation because of this war to shut down the recruiting station.” That’s silly. When you focus your protesting on the military, you distract from the argument over the war. It’s a staggeringly bad idea. True (the [...] The best sentence ever: The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form [...] …except, possibly “U2 Tower.” <Cringe> It’s like the gods could tell I was looking for content and sent Pax Corey, prophet that he is, along to proclaim the wonder attrocity that is this planned Dublin development. Of course it’s not so much phallic as cheese-grater-ish, but regardless represents a huge departure (at least in this rendering) [...] I see Open Left’s I’m From Barcelona and raise them one Polyphonic Spree: [coolplayer width="480" height="380" autoplay="0" loop="0" charset="utf-8" download="0" mediatype=""] Never go in against a Sicilian faux-hipster when indie music street cred is on the line. No, not Mike Meginnis’s alternatively acerbic and jocular blog (I recently found my thesaurus), but literally How to destroy the Earth (!!!): 3. Sucked into a microscopic black hole You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable [...] Pax Americana, in defense of deductable charitable donations for the arts: The first [reason] is that deductions are an indirect subsidy to lots of people who aren’t rich, including the middle class, artists, and those that benefit from the research done by universities, which might end up including poor people. The second is that if we [...] |
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