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Feb 05 2009

By javier geography

Call me for a visit, and criticism.

I'm a PhD candidate in the Geography Department at UC Berkeley, a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow (2011-2012), and a faculty member at the California College of the Arts. My background is in architectural design and practice. In my academic life, I research former military landscapes and spaces of memory related to the World War II homefront and the Cold War. I'm also trained as an oral historian, and I collaborate with the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office at UC Berkeley. I co-founded the experimental landscape collective Demilit. More broadly, I study urban cultures, social imaginaries of cities, the history of cities, contemporary architecture, and digital media. I'm interested in knowing more about shared ideas of public or urban space, and how these shape the city. I believe that understanding what Lefebvre called "spaces of representation" can uncover ways of building a socially and environmentally just metropolis.

,@rogre "Sweden's Classroom-Free School" http://t.co/2V55n765 2 hours ago
:-\ RT @dneus: "Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?" Safdie answers with a smile. http://t.co/XHC6BXHg 2 hours ago
"A former architect has become one of the best-loved baristas in LA; another runs the Coolhaus ice cream truck." http://t.co/ItK7D3bb 3 hours ago
RT @beatsnrice: Congrats to the #sfgiants on a super win. 2010 was amazing. 5 hours ago
I apologize, Twitter! My comments about billionaire George Lucas must have had you thinking that I'd segregate him into a reservation! 5 hours ago
.@SeanOQuin I'll make a film that infantilizes a culture as cuddly forest creatures and name the character after the Irish. 7 hours ago
Highly addictive and truly worthwhile time spent RT @spare_ohs: the last unicycle: http://t.co/JuXqTLFw 7 hours ago

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"most other studies of drone strikes have relied on sketchy and often contradictory news reports from Pakistan," whilst the US milit isn't? 2 hours ago
Will Sea Lion Terrorist Trackers Help Clear Waters Off Iran? / http://t.co/JMIwAaNp (w/ regrets, please forgive the link to FOX...) 4 hours ago
RT @subtopes: Rael Urges Closing of U.S. Bases in Okinawa / http://t.co/AFMO2gcw 4 hours ago
Whence the question already presumes there is a problem http://t.co/bakFZwxM 4 hours ago
"This is shallow humanitarianism, callous in its disregard for the materialities that make human life possible…" http://t.co/edlf8uYZ 7 hours ago
RT @MaxBlumenthal: The organizers of @PennBDS established a new fact on the ground. #BDS will gain momentum despite efforts of anti-equ ... 7 hours ago
"That justified killing Indian children. …honestly (uncomfortable pause)…that Indian problem was pretty much solved" http://t.co/kU8wAsBd 8 hours ago

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Is Sweden's classroom-free school the future of learning? http://t.co/d1ehoJGM 2012:02/06
Is Sweden's classroom-free school the future of learning? http://t.co/d1ehoJGM
Archis/Volume
RT @rpeckham: An NDPR review of "Deleuze and Ethics." http://t.co/b6MtKSz0 2012:02/06
RT @rpeckham: An NDPR review of "Deleuze and Ethics." http://t.co/b6MtKSz0
mattermorph
[Blog] Diary from Mumbai: Part II | Slum Upgrading in Pune | http://t.co/i5dyvBCD 2012:02/06
[Blog] Diary from Mumbai: Part II | Slum Upgrading in Pune | http://t.co/i5dyvBCD
Shack Dwellers Int'l
"Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?" Safdie answers with a smile. http://t.co/yyZLn0o6 2012:02/06
"Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?" Safdie answers with a smile. http://t.co/yyZLn0o6
David Neustein
Hit by recession, architects have cut fees, sacked staff & even closed shop. But perhaps our false modesty should be the first thing to go. 2012:02/06
Hit by recession, architects have cut fees, sacked staff & even closed shop. But perhaps our false modesty should be the first thing to go.
David Neustein

"It could be said that if we have arrived at a place where geographical CFPs include phrases such as..." 2012:02/05
“It could be said that if we have arrived at a place where geographical CFPs include phrases such as “Ironically, both the pleasure of bestiality for the practitioner and the horror/humor of the shocked observer rely upon this projection of humanity onto the animal” and “Hunting is a negotiation with animals” means that the discipline is in real trouble. It […]
"(((Boing-Boing: PASSIVE TOOL OF DARPA GENOCIDE..." 2012:02/05
“(((Boing-Boing: PASSIVE TOOL OF DARPA GENOCIDE COVER-UP?!))) http://demilit.tumblr.com/post/16586056738/waiting-for-doctorow (((Being a drone fan, and imagining this emergent struggle has nothing to do with you… it’s like being a fan of atom science and thinking Nagasaki was some kind of accident. You just gotta be aware of the ambiguities while also knowin […]
The Darpa-Make-BoingBoing FAQ: 2012:02/03
.@Soundscrapers's latest SF Lunchwalk: Forty-three Ambient Slices of the City 2012:01/27
.@Soundscrapers's latest SF Lunchwalk: Forty-three Ambient Slices of the City: “Streets should be named for the sounds one may hear on them.” (article)
Waiting for Doctorow 2012:01/27

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