I am a Strange Loop -
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, `I` arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here?
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Friday, 28 October 2022
quote [ A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory. ]
In celebration of his life, Verso is giving away one of his books for free. Link in the extended.
City of Quartz - Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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eddiebax said @ 6:44pm GMT on 29th Oct
One of the great chroniclers of Los Angeles, inspiration and mentor to many more. Thought he was unduly negative when I first read him in the early '90's, only to have many of his predictions ultimately bear out.
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