The only way our desires become legible and visible is through grassroots organizing and activism, and that is a calculus that has never changed. The resources and the money are there, but there’s a lack of political will from the unfortunate millionaire class that dominates our politics. The way to get that has everything to do with connecting the energy on the ground to a different vision for our society - one that has housing justice, equity and housing security at the heart of it. We have come to believe that equitable housing is just some weird thing that can’t happen here, and the reality is that we have the resources to create the kinds of housing outcomes that we say we desire. You don’t need a total transformation of society to create equitable housing for people. Until we deal fundamentally with that contradiction - trying to fit a square peg into a round hole - we will continue to see these problems recur. We’re trying to fit those two together, public interest and making a profit, but they don’t work in housing, in education, in the distribution of health care, in the distribution of water. The real estate industry, whether you like it or don’t like it, is (centered on the goal to) “buy low, sell high” and make a profit. The public sector is set up to protect the public’s interest, the public’s welfare. The second part is really coming to grips with the contradiction of the public/private partnership.
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6/29/2023 0 Comments The arc book ben oliverThis song is unique and weird and fantastic. “You’re the same kind of bad as me.” I always saw the evil artificial intelligence in The Loop series as analogous to sneering politicians who think they’re somehow better than the people they represent. This song fits for some many reasons: the slightly de-tuned keys give it a feeling of unreality the lyrics talk about the unfair structure of society and… well, it’s just a brilliant song. The way it builds up at the start and then kicks into action is so cool. I was thinking about the chaos of the final battle scene when I chose this song. The song is built around recordings of ground control during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and it’s beautiful. This song encapsulates humanities need to strive for better, faster, more advanced, bigger, more. AD-PR // Blog Tour // The Loop & The Block – Ben Oliverīen Oliver’s The Arc Playlist BAND/ARTIST 6/29/2023 0 Comments Tatiana i alexanderUntil about the end of last summer, the most popular refrain was to quote Putin from his July 7 meeting with parliamentarians: “We are only getting started.” Back then it seemed like the Kremlin knew what it was doing, that it still had some aces up its sleeve.Īt the same time, there was a lot of talk about red lines, which if crossed would result in merciless and devastating retribution. It’s interesting to observe how the Russian authorities’ explanations of their defeats have evolved over the last fifteen months of war. The overall impression is that the Russian leadership does not fundamentally understand the danger the country is in right now. President Vladimir Putin is silent as usual his spokesperson refers all questions to the Defense Ministry and the Defense Ministry responds with endless reports of its successes that everyone stopped believing long ago. Yet none of this apparently warrants a public response. In addition to the repeated shelling of border regions, last week paramilitaries launched a cross-border raid of the Belgorod region, and now Moscow itself is under attack from drones. The Russian government’s reaction (or lack of) to what appear to be Ukraine’s increasingly audacious attacks on Russian territory is extraordinary. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Plow over the bones of the deadThis is the setup for Olga Tokarczuk's 2009 novel 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead', which has been adapted for the stage in an extraordinary production at The Lowry theatre by internationally renowned theatre company Theatre de Complicité.Īt its heart this play is a murder mystery - but this is a 'whodunnit' unlike any you've seen before. They're taking their revenge.Īs the men continue to die in unpleasant ways we learn that Janina has recently lost her two beloved dogs - she refers to them as her 'daughters' and is bereft at their disappearance. Janina Duszejko, an older woman who plots astrological charts and translates William Blake, has a theory: she thinks the men are being killed because they're hunters - and it's the animals who are doing it. In a Polish village near the Czech border men keep dying in violent ways, their bodies are discovered surrounded by animal tracks in the snow. They had believed not knowing would be better. Their marriage becomes stronger, but the past haunts them - they have had an agreement to not share with each other whom their respective partners were at that raw point in their marriage. And over the course of this series, Lou and Liz Boldt have gone through a lot - a kidnapped daughter, Liz with cancer, etc. Over the years and throughout the series, Boldt's marriage and his attraction to Matthews are an underlying story, finally ending with Matthews moving in with Detective LaMoia in the last book. Boldt is obsessed with tracking a serial killer to the point of giving his wife an excuse to have an affair and Boldt himself is attracted to his beautiful colleague, police pyschologist Daphne Matthews. When this series started ( Undercurrents), Homicide Detective Lou Boldt's marriage was on shaky grounds. The struggle is to protect you and to save our marriage, it's retaining or maintaining respect for each other, making out the other side in one piece." "Because to tell the truth, I don't care about the embezzlement, this seventeen million dollars. "The struggle is not not in solving this case," Boldt told Liz, who was still half asleep. ( Jump down to read a review of Middle of Nowhere) ( Jump down to read a review of The Art of Deception) ( Jump over to read a review of Killer View) ( Jump over to read a review of Killer Summer) Late that summer the City of Boulder, trying to shed its image as a 1960s hippie town, decided to “beautify” the neighborhood, and sent everybody a letter saying that no couches could be placed on porches. We shared ideas and perspectives back and forth for weeks on end in that beautiful Colorado summer, the mornings cool and sweet, with blue skies the color of heaven, and afternoons likely to generate a passing thunderstorm, whose giant cumulonimbus anvils off to the east, about when I would go for my end-of-the-day run along the trails of the Boulder Mountain Park, were touched by the yellow and salmon colors of sunset, and were another part of heaven too. Wilson had just published his groundbreaking book on the evolution of animal and human social behavior, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, and it was generating a good deal of “buzz” – even controversy. It was only a few blocks from the campus of the University of Colorado, where I was in my first year of graduate school. We were sitting on an old couch on the front porch of my rented house in a neighborhood called “The Hill” in Boulder, Colorado. Wilson, the famous Harvard biologist, was forty years ago. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Arendt hannah the human conditionThe Traditional Substitution of Making for Actingģ3. Homo Faber and the Space of Appearanceģ1. The Web of Relationships and the Enacted StoriesĢ9. The Disclosure of the Agent in Speech and ActionĢ5. The Permanence of the World and the Work of ArtĢ4. The Instruments of Work and the Division of LaborĢ3. “The Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands”ġ6. Read More about The Human Condition Read Less about The Human Conditionġ1. This new edition, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of its original publication, contains Margaret Canovan’s 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.Ī classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely. The problems Arendt identified then-diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions-continue to confront us today. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations-from totalitarianism to revolution.Ī work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The ozma of ozBut she also meets several formidable enemies, including the haughty Princess Langwidere, who keeps exactly 30 beautiful heads in a mirror-lined dressing room, changing them according to whim. There she reconnects with her old friends Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Woodman, and makes new ones including Tiktok, a mechanical copper man. She floats to shore in a chicken coop, and finds herself not in Oz, but in a nearby kingdom known as the Land of Ev. Nearly all are terrific, but the third, from 1907, may be the most memorable: Ozma of Oz finds Dorothy en route to Australia by ship, where she is blown into the drink during a massive storm. Frank Baum wrote a whole series of wildly inventive Oz books-14 in all, most of them featuring the young heroine he introduced in the first, Dorothy Gale of Kansas. After the success of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, L. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Chaos by Tom O'NeillTwenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia - or dystopia - was just an acid trip away. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order - their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the 60s. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. A journalist's 20-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Insatiable by Asa AkiraIn a world where porn is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream, Akira is one of very few articulate voices writing from the inside. Insatiable is filled with Akira's unusual and often highly amusing anecdotes, including her visit to a New Hampshire sex shop run by a mother and son. In a wry, conversational tone, she talks about her experiences shoplifting and doing drugs while in school, her relationship with other porn stars (she is married to one) and with the industry at large, and her beliefs about women and sexuality. In Insatiable, Akira recounts her extraordinary life in chapters that are hilarious, shocking, and touching. Akira has now built up a reputation for being of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the business, winning dozens of awards for her 330+ movies, including her #1 bestselling series "Asa Akira Is Insatiable". Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. |