Uneven Developments
The Will to Power
April 9, 2010
The World Bank yesterday approved a $3.75 billion loan for a new coal-fired power plant in Limpopo, South Africa. Named […]
Read PostUrban Planet
April 3, 2010
United Nations-Habitat, the agency focused on human settlements, recently released its latest bi-annual State of World Cities Report. The report […]
Read PostHaiti’s Declaration of Independence
April 1, 2010
The Haitian Declaration of Independence, missing for over two hundred years, has just been found in the British National Archives. […]
Read PostLife and Debt
March 22, 2010
The United States has finally joined the ranks of other advanced nations by establishing something close to a universal health […]
Read PostMercy Mercy Me
March 21, 2010
A quick post about the Nature, Ecology, and Society Colloquium that I attended a while back at the CUNY Grad […]
Read PostThe Left Hand of the State
March 7, 2010
In “Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market,” the late great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu discusses the social suffering […]
Read PostThe End of Work(fare)
February 21, 2010
I just came across two really powerful accounts of the crisis of our times. One was an article in the […]
Read PostNew classes
January 28, 2010
I finally have my new classes for the spring semester ready. One, which I’ll be teaching at the Graduate Center, […]
Read PostA Corporation is Not a Person
January 23, 2010
Two days ago the Supreme Court issued what is perhaps its most calamitous ruling in a century. In a 5-to-4 […]
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