I'm sorry to jump in here, but I could not be silent about this.
Racism, or its absence, is not a passing thing that a nettime user gets
to summarily referee. It doesn't work that way. Trump voters had almost
two years to denounce Trump's racism, and that of his most vocal
followers
According to an article going around from El Diario, a subsidiary of
Tenneco went to Google to formally request erasing protest signs and
graffiti at the Monroe (Spark-plugs) plant in Gijón, Spain. The
article says that the subsidiary claimed there was personal information
in the s
The word gentrification itself is about 50 years old and it was invented by
a Marxist academic (Ruth Glass) to explain the violent effects of class
transformation in the UK. If you are looking for discussion of why cities
don't simply change passively over time, there is a huge body of literature
t
Kotkin should come with a Surgeon General's warning. Although the class
divisions he describes are real, the standard, age-old Kotkin fare is to
prescribe fossil fuel drilling, labor deregulation, and suburbanization as
equalizers. By the way, Google buses are not being "attacked", as Lovink
put it
