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- Category: Book Reviews
- Real Crimes and the Coming Violence
- Whither Modern Life?
- What the Hell
- AI, Risk, and Work
- Autocracy Defeats Neoliberalism
- History… We’re Soaking in It!
- War Is the Air We Breathe
- Silicon Valley: A Living History
- And Yet, We Go On
- It IS Happening Here
- General Ludd to General Intellect
- The Root of All Evil
- Post-Pandemic Melancholia . . . Same As It Ever Was?
- Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
- Reparations is the Least We Should Do
- We Are Not Alone
- For Full Enjoyment, Not Full Employment!
- So You Think You’re An Anarchist?
- Still Reckless, No Longer Wreckless!
- Scorched Earth and more
- Organ Recital
- Refusing to be an Imperial Subject
- The End
- Civilization and Its Forgotten (and Suppressed) Possibilities
- My Horizontalist Life!
- The World in the Whale
- Brainless, Impersonal, Implacable
- Forests Are Family, Too!
- The Constitution is The Problem
- Where Am I in History?
- Taking Time to Think About Time
- Biden Our Time?
- Plants Are People, Too!
- History is Changing; We’re Changing History!
- Life and Death … Continues!
- Life and Death …
- Anti-Black Racism is Built Into Everything
- The State Won’t Save Us: Dis-eased Imaginations and Traumatized Hope
- Abolition Unfinished
- Who’s Processing Whom?
- This Land is WHOSE Land??
- Ice and Oil
- Exiting the Cul-de-Sac
- Contesting the History of Early American California
- Summer Fog
- Marshalling History Against a Martial Culture: Guns, War, and Memory
- The Age of Abundant (Plastic) and the Age of Loneliness
- Uniting Cognitarians is like Herding Cats!
- Nature is Trying to Kill Me!
- Thinking about Post-Capitalism
- Start Talks Now on Work Reduction!
- When Punk Mattered: At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City
- Ça Suffit? Politics In the Early 21st Century
- A Festival of Empire Wrapped in Technological Hubris
- Life During Wartime
- Liberal San Francisco and the Catholic Church
- Revolutionaries Who Fall Short
- Space and Time in Summer 2014
- Solidarity… Forever?
- Public Secrets and Private Agony: Talking About Work!
- Agin the Smaht Cit-ay!
- Liberalism… Still!
- Life in a Neoliberal Crockpot
- Spook Governments, Networked Movements, Shifting Subjectivities
- Cracks, Openings, Uprisings
- Old Patterns Still With Us
- Forgetting to Remember
- Hurtling Into Autumn; “Rebel Cities”
- Finding the New in the Old
- Thinking About (Growing) Food
- Fraud and Corruption: The DNA of Business
- Anatomy of Decomposition
- Jobs Don’t Work!
- Conundrums of the Commons
- Imagining Utopia
- Parallel Universes
- Work Worth Doing
- Crisis Talk
- Cardiff, Wales, a city killing itself?
- Into the 53rd…
- Premonitory Depression Blues
- For the Love of Rain
- Waterworld
- Death and Insecurity
- Glimmers of History
- The Tortoise vs. the Gangster
- In a New Saddle
- Battle of Seattle
- The View from my Bed
- Arts Ecology
- SF Int’l Film Festival! pt 5
- SF Int’l Film Festival! pt 5
- SF Int’l Film Festival! pt 4
- SF Int’l Film Festival! pt 4
- SF Int’l Film Festival! pt 3
- SF Int’l Film Festival! pt 3
- SF Int’l Film Festival! Part 2
- SF Int’l Film Festival! Part 2
- SF Int’l Film Festival! Part 1
- SF Int’l Film Festival! Part 1
- Art of Science
- Hard Analysis
- What Should the Left Propose?
- Politics Out of History
- Where Did Science Come From? Where is it Going?
- Philippines and San Francisco
- Anger and its malcontents
- Precarious Life
- Affinity vs. Hegemony
- Memory and Responsibility
- Monster at the Door, Gardens on the Roof
- Sports as History
- Fibreculture, Precarity, Organized Networks
- The Scheme(s)
- Multitude
- Power and Violence
- Penguins Do the Darndest Things!
- Al-Qaida, Batman and the New Vanguardism
- Labor History right now
- Otherizing in Northern California
- Caliban and the Witch
- The Pacific Edge
- Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
- Fortress of Solitude
- Winners!
- ’68
- One Vast Winter Count
- Haiti
- Network Culture
- Emergency Sex After Liberalism
- The Links
- The Factory
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Category: Critical Mass
- Critical Mass San Francisco Turns 30 Years Old!
- We Can’t Wait
- The Bicycling Commons
- Lo Común Público Bicicletero
- From Bicycling to a Broader Public Commons
- Ciudades que echan la mano
- When Bicycling Was Cool
- If Bicycling is the Key, What Does it Unlock?
- Si el ciclismo es la clave, ¿qué nos revela?
- Mais Amor: Forum Mundial da Bicicleta III in Curitiba, Brazil
- What is Relevance?
- An Anniversary to Remember
- The Switch is On! 20th Anniversary Celebration Has Begun…
- Bicicrítica in Madrid
- World Bike Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Protest or Celebration? Or Something Deeper Still?
- Colima, a Lesser Known Mexican Secret!
- Starting from the Sausages
- Critical Mass Goes Deep (into the southern neighborhoods)
- Making Space Public
- Commons and its Enemies
- Spring Delight: Critical Mass March 09
- Floating, Waiting, Wondering
- Thank You Corkers! Vancouver Critical Mass, June 2008
- Al Mare (To the Sea)! (Rome Critical Mass part three)
- t-shirt gallery from Rome Critical Mass weekend
- SNIA and Ciemmona (Rome Critical Mass part two)
- A Sublebrity in Italy!
- Critical Mass in Rome (part one)
- Lost in Migration!
- Bees and Bombs
- Home and Away
- Blimps, bikes, pipelines, uninsurance
- April Buzzes
- Tempestuous Cyclists and a Stunning Victory
- Gossips Hit a Nerve
- April Moon
- Magic still happens!
- New Year’s Potpourri…
- October Pleasures
- Disaster Bicycling
- Midsummer Mass
- The Yellow Sign of our Irony Problem
- Out and About
- Critical Mass Feb 06–Why We Ride and Do’s and Don’ts!
- Aging Bike Rides, Healing Brain
- Critical Mass is Thirteen!
- Critical Mass May 2005
- Critical Mass April 05
- Feb 05 Critical Mass and “Self-Management”
- New Years Critical Mass; The Sorrow and The Pity
- Halloween Critical Mass 04
- Category: General Musings
- As Darkness Engulfs Us
- “Things Are in the Saddle, and Ride Mankind”
- Forgotten Futures in Seattle
- A Numbing Spectacle
- War and Anti-War
- Practicing Anarchy While the State Fiddles
- Nature’s General Strike
- Voting as Harm Reduction
- Left Turn Only for San Francisco
- From Nowtopia To Rebel City
- Life is Great! Life is Horrible!… OK, It’s Both!
- Big City Spring
- Gazing Ironically into the Cul-de-Sac of Radicalism
- Why I Loved the Women’s March, January 21, 2017
- Dislocations Near and Far
- Summer in Mexico City!
- Solicited and Rejected by the NY Times!
- Never Too Late? Estudiando Español en Mexico!
- Remaking Baylands While Preparing for Sea-level Rise
- I’m in a Hurry . . . to Slow Down!
- Valparaiso: Getting a Glimpse
- First Time in Santiago, Chile
- Mary Brown Has Died But She Lives On in All of Us
- Forget Affordability: In Defense of Cheap Rent!
- On Being Away
- Notes From Technotopia: On The Cruelty Of Indifference
- One Trap or Another
- Impunity
- Gentrification and Liberalism, San Francisco and Beyond
- Rage and Radical Patience
- Dog-Whistle Politics in San Francisco
- This is What Democracy Looks Like?!?
- Thoughts on the Gift Economy
- Amnesia and History
- In the Trenches with General Intellect
- Spring Cleaning
- Occupying Our Impasse
- Carnage and Cynicism
- Entering Peru
- Out in the Streets: Vamos Gigantes!
- Eye Candy: Spring Wildflowers
- Social Democracy and Transitioning
- Future Shorelines
- Needed: Climate Change!
- Ruminating on Nowtopia
- England is blooming
- Nowtopia in Bristol
- Bikes in Belem
- Soggy Socialists”¦ and Everyone Else Too!
- Crossing the Planet
- The Webs We Weave
- Practical Solutions!
- The China Syndrome
- Eco Mots
- Pot-purring
- History Past and Present
- DIY is Bigger Than We Think
- Fake Numbers and Real Limits
- In Search of a Public Life
- Wasting Away reading about Waste
- New Year, Old Back
- Precarious Urbanity, Linear History
- I’m baaaacckkk!
- I’m baaaacckkk!
- Tortured Professionals
- Journey to Camp Rostock
- Climate Change Changes Purpose?
- What does “spiritual” mean anyway?
- Sick of Health!
- Brittle Clarity
- Timely reading on Time
- Gettin’ all Noir on ya!
- Gettin’ all Noir on ya!
- Holidaze
- Evolving Politics?
- Outta sight
- Orga(ni)smic Communities
- Thanksgiving continuity
- Oceanic Slime
- Feeling Freer in a House of Mirrors
- Food for Words?
- UnAmerican Thoughts
- Madhouse Distractions
- Bambi, Bolivia and Brainstorming
- Wars and Invisible Resistance
- Blinding War
- Snoozing through “News”
- Snoozing through “News”
- Terminations
- World Cupture and Breakfast
- Summer Blues
- Local and Global
- The Heart of Politics
- Parody and Paranoia
- History circling through Chile
- Transparency as Subversion: Open Source Feelings
- Nuclear Attack on Iran?
- Brain Balm
- Demodernization, the ultimate threat
- A Broken Heart
- Temperature is falling
- The Rush of History
- Twin Peaks and a Phat Farm
- Beginning of the End?
- Avian flu and thinking Networkly
- Seeing through technology
- Peace and War
- Not Again (or Again AND Again!)
- Crashing into World Wars
- Thanks Billmon!!
- Anarchism…. when?
- Sex Pioneers
- Iraq and Mexico
- Notes on a Mediocrity-Free Zone
- All Sped Up!
- Bolivians in El Alto persist
- Death Squad Summer Camp 2005!
- We coulda had SUMPthin’!
- I Heart Culture War!
- Concerning spines, or the lack thereof
- November 2004
- July 1916
- Oil and money
- Riverbend
- After the Election
- Guantánamo good for selling cars?
- Just for Openers
- Category: guest writer
- Category: History
- Category: My Writings and Appearances
- Pigeon Palace Protest May 5 video
- Nowtopia in Brazil
- Giftivalve
- A Car-Free Future?
- Whose Streets? People vs. Automobiles: The 20th Century Battle over Cities, Streets, and Freeways
- “¿Calles de quién?” (Whose Streets? en Español)
- Lima at Last!
- TEDx Amazonia: Entrepreneurialism, Innovation, and Survival, Part 3
- TEDx Amazonia: Culture, Ecology, Amazonia, Part 2
- TEDx Amazonia: Quality of Life for All Species, Part 1
- Last Tango in Zagarolo!
- Nowtopia Meets Descrescita Felice!
- A Hop Into Switzerland
- Ciclomundi
- Up and Down in Oslo
- Segundo Congreso Nacional de Ciclismo Urbano, Guadalajara, Mexico, 18 Septiembre, 2009
- My Speech at the Second National Congress of Urban Cycling, Guadalajara, Mexico, Sept. 18, 2009
- A Wee Visit to Scotland!
- Spring Lamb Bonanza!
- Seven Cities in Seven Days!
- Liverpudlian Surprises
- It’s Happening in Los Angeles!
- Quack ‘n Track
- Nowtopia vs. Despair in Seattle
- Nowtopia in Milan
- A Black Turtle Crossed My Path!
- Nowtopia is for Tortoises!
- Nowtopian moments in Dystopian America
- Springing Forward
- Cautiously Rising!
- Watch out for that swinging pendulum!
- Mad Marchness
- Upcoming public appearances
- Missing but Active!
- Critical Mass Feb 06–Why We Ride and Do’s and Don’ts!
- Happy May Day!
- Upcoming public appearances
- Readings this week and beyond!
- Category: Nature and Me
- Category: Nowtopia
- Category: Public Space
- Category: San Francisco news
- Category: Technology?
- Category: Travel report
- Category: Work and The Economy
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