Some Portland neighborhoods are positively serene. Michel and I took a long bicycle ride this morning that took us through a few of those neighborhoods. You see, we just started a new project today and as a result were stopping and occasionally photographing streets and intersections along the way. Essentially, we are beginning to...
Read more →This was used for the F29 Shut Down the Corporations media push, but since ALEC is back in the news, I wanted to put it out there again. Nice job, Mike!
Read more →I thought that, in the tradition of the great philosophers, I would initiate my posting with a Hegelian triad—Schizophrenia, Bagels, and Time. But what do these three things—Schizophrenia, Bagels, Time—have to do with one another? They seem so radically different, but when we (psycho)analyze them, aren’t they virtually the same? The first thing in...
Read more →t bottom, it seems, it all comes down to a simple but profound truth: that as long as ecological governance remains in the grip of essentially unregulated (liberal or neoliberal) capitalism—a regime responsible for much if not most of the plunder and theft of our ecological wealth in the last, roughly 150 years—there never...
Read more →I was recently recounting my personal house-hunting woes to a well-traveled friend of mine — a person who has lived in Portland, Oregon his entire life (about 40 years). My friend (let’s call him James) is currently staying on a buddy’s couch after some time abroad because he can’t find affordable housing in the...
Read more →Through a process of losing confidence that has spanned my twenties, I’ve finally given up on national politics and find it incapable of being reformed through existing institutional reform mechanisms (except maybe a constitutional amendment coming from a state driven convention; different can of worms for a different post). The lack of meaningful campaign...
Read more →Explicit, implicit, interplicit. Rut. Rutoscope. Rutopia. Rutilingus. Unruttable. Ruttlement. Jazz. Jazzercise. Jazzercision. Jazzlement. Jazzle-rocket. Common. Commoning. Comminal. Discobedience.
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