Irvine -- On this Veterans Day show, KUCI's Subversity show features a veteran of countless peace and justice struggles and related literary output, cultural critic and UCI history prof. Mike Davis. Davis, who last week won the noted Lannan Literary Award for non-fiction for his prolific body of work, speaks to Subversity about developers and Orange County, and why he would like to reduce his time in academia (by two-thirds to one-third). He has made such a request to UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake. We talked to him after his recent (October 31) UCI talk, "Katrina in the Suburbs," about the politics of wildfires, which will also air.
Davis, who will receive $150,000 with the Lannan honor, is a past recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship award. His biography from the Lannan Awards site (http://www.lannan.org/lf/lit/awards-and-fellowships/) notes: "Mike Davis was born in Fontana, California, 60 miles east of Los Angeles in 1946, and is a veteran of 1960's civil rights and anti-war movements. From his first book, *Prisoners of the American Dream* (1986), about unionism in the United States, to his most recent, *Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb* (2007), Davis' fearless writing in 18 books shines a fresh light on economic, social, environmental, and political injustice. Some of his other books include *City of Quartz*, *Ecology of Fear*, *Magical Urbanism*, *Planet of Slums*, *Dead Cities*, *In Praise of Barbarians*, and *No One is Illegal*. He is currently working on a book about climate change, water, and power in the U.S. West and northern Mexico. A former meat cutter and long-distance truck driver, Davis has been a fellow at the Getty Institute and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. He teaches at the University of California, Irvine." His Wikipedia entry is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_%28scholar%29 The show airs on Monday, 12 November 2007, on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, and is webcast simultaneously via http://kuci.org. Subscribe to podcasts here: http://www.kuci.org/podcasts/?ShowID=600 . He was last on Subversity after the Katrina disaster (14 October 2004). To listen to that show (unfortunately some audio is lost): http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv051014b.mp3 <http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv051014b.mp3> Among his recent articles is this one, "San Diego Builds a Statute to an Arsonist: Developers with Matches" : http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174857 dan -- Daniel C. Tsang Host, "Subversity" and "Syndicated Potpourri" on KUCI 88.9 FM in Orange County/http://www.kuci.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subversity site: http://kuci.org/~dtsang <http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang> Subversity broadcasting since September 1993 To subscribe to Subversity Podcasts: http://www.kuci.org/podcasts/?ShowID=600 Syndicated Potpourri site: http://kuci.org/~dtsang/synpot/<http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/synpot/> Syndicated Potpourri roadcasting since October 2007 To subscribe to Syndicated Potpourri podcasts: http://www.kuci.org/podcasts/?ShowID=805 KUCI Full-text Archive: http://kuci.org/~dtsang/kucift.html<http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/kucift.html> -- Daniel C. Tsang Host, "Subversity" and "Syndicated Potpourri" on KUCI 88.9 FM in Orange County/http://www.kuci.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subversity site: http://kuci.org/~dtsang <http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang> Subversity broadcasting since September 1993 To subscribe to Subversity Podcasts: http://www.kuci.org/podcasts/?ShowID=600 Syndicated Potpourri site: http://kuci.org/~dtsang/synpot/<http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/synpot/> Syndicated Potpourri roadcasting since October 2007 To subscribe to Syndicated Potpourri podcasts: http://www.kuci.org/podcasts/?ShowID=805 KUCI Full-text Archive: http://kuci.org/~dtsang/kucift.html<http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/kucift.html> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
