The Fracturing of Pennsylvania -
This is an important one.
“The foreclosure crisis is where the rubber hits the road with the financial sector and the real economy, the 1 percent and the 99 percent,” says Mike Konczal, a finance-reform expert at the Roosevelt Institute who attended the East New York occupation. “If you really want to challenge the banks’ power and the way they’re stripping wealth out of communities, leaving wreckage behind, foreclosures are a key point to go to.” — Occupy Goes Home. If we can bail out the banks, we should be able to bail out the people. Yes? That’s the point.
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Think this is poorly worded/strange feeling copy for a publication known for its hard-hitting, investigative coverage of tough, tough topics (which I’m a fan of, I read Mother Jones regularly). A better choice “You may also be interested in…” ? Dunno?
My first experience with the “Other Readers” feature recently rolled out on reading.am — I love it! (The article.)
Individual vs. The Collective. Screencap of the day.
the tiny book of tiny stories.
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“But it is clear that the role inhabitants play must be central and direct. Unlike
the indirect nature of liberal-democratic enfranchisement in which the voice of citizens is filtered through the institutions of the state, the right to the city would see inhabitants contribute directly to all decisions that produce urban space in their city.”
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Excavating Lefebvre: The right to the city and its urban politics of the inhabitation. “Urban space” being defined as:
Lefebvre’s idea of space includes what he calls perceived space, conceived space, and lived space … Lived space is the complex combination of perceived and conceived space. It represents a person’s actual experience of space in everyday life. Lived space is not just a passive stage on which social life unfolds, but represents a constituent element of social life.
“Quality of urban life has become a commodity, as has the city itself, in a world where consumerism, tourism, cultural and knowledge-based industries have become major aspects of the urban political economy. The postmodernist penchant for encouraging the formation of market niches—in both consumer habits and cultural forms—surrounds the contemporary urban experience with an aura of freedom of choice, provided you have the money…” — One more from “The Right to the City.”