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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.

Small state police force loads up on overtime / sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl… 14 minutes ago
Speak Out @ the Berkeley City Council, about the Police Agreements NCRIC & UASI (5.22 @ 8pm Old City Hall, Berkeley) / indybay.org/newsitems/2012… 22 minutes ago
RT @subtopes: "Srebrenica – genocide 11/07/95" exhibition at the War Photo Limited gallery in Dubrovnik, Croatia / independent.co.uk/arts-entertain… 52 minutes ago
"Army's Miscues, Botched Buys May Doom Industrial Base" / aol.it/JXG89B 55 minutes ago
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U.S. and Canada Implementing Beyond the Border Perimeter Security Initiatives / indybay.org/newsitems/2012… 8 hours ago
U.S. grants visa to Raul Castro’s daughter but denies visit by Cuban academics j.mp/KZgOQi 11 hours ago

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Giant prehistoric freshwater turtle discovered http://t.co/3eh4WIo9
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Native American Youth to Diane Sawyer: We’re Not Poverty Porn http://t.co/7DHJdsNy (via @QueerKnowledge) /KF #FB 2012:05/18
Native American Youth to Diane Sawyer: We’re Not Poverty Porn http://t.co/7DHJdsNy (via @QueerKnowledge) /KF #FB
Savage Minds
New drainage ditch/skate park opens in Central El Paso http://t.co/iBXo9Png 2012:05/18
New drainage ditch/skate park opens in Central El Paso http://t.co/iBXo9Png
El Paso Report
Nobody milks petulant self-victimhood like a billionaire http://t.co/wwoEeWg5 2012:05/18
Nobody milks petulant self-victimhood like a billionaire http://t.co/wwoEeWg5
Glenn Greenwald

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I am going to #cnu20 retweet if you are attending — Edward Erfurt (@Edward_Erfurt) May 5, 2012 2012:05/05
I am going to #cnu20 retweet if you are attending — Edward Erfurt (@Edward_Erfurt) May 5, 2012
.@rupertmurdoch No, that’s just you. — Alejandro A. Arbona (@Alejandrobot) May 5, 2012 I... 2012:05/05
.@rupertmurdoch No, that’s just you. — Alejandro A. Arbona (@Alejandrobot) May 5, 2012 I agree, @rupertmurdoch! Society needs to get back to a civilized state where we tapped the phones of murdered teenager’s mothers. — Mike Monteiro (@Mike_FTW) May 5, 2012 @robdelaney @rupertmurdoch I blame the Sun, rather than the Mirror… — Nick Frost (@nichola […]
DEMILIT: SF Gravelator 91L 2012:04/03
DEMILIT: SF Gravelator 91L: demilit: SF Gravelator 91L by DEMILIT Originally aired on Deutchlandradio Kultur ‘s Newcomer Werkstatt, June 24, 2011. Commissioned by Marcus Gammel of Deutchlandradio. SF-91L is the name of the abandoned Nike Missile station on Angel Island, in the San Francisco Bay, where we…
I was calling for geometric 2012:03/25
Yeah, my name is Al, I was calling for geometric, the bus, the one they called me last night at 12:30. My time, about her mother, gimme a call back. My home phone. Orwell those minutes on my cellphone. If you get says I’m calling from my home phone right now, alright. But.
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"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in..." 2012:02/14
“The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.” - Military school Commandant’ […]
"If space is a practiced place, then collective navigation produces the commons. Like mall-rats..." 2012:02/13
“If space is a practiced place, then collective navigation produces the commons. Like mall-rats flipping tricks in a parking lot, users exhibit a feral fluency in the use (and transgression, as it is reimagined daily) of this common timespace: we tune out the ads and get on with the serious business of flirting, hustling, hanging out and talking shit. We kno […]

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