In my seminar class at CCA this semester, we started to talk last week about gender roles and the city in very general terms. In the coming weeks, we’ll be diving into more readings that will directly address how participation, or lack thereof, in the public sphere affects spatial and design outcomes; the built environment, if you will. To these ends I shared a few clippings with my students that i will re-post here with some addendums. Continue reading
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Juan González of Democracy Now! in Puerto Rico
Juan González provided a good commentary on the absence of Barak Obama in Puerto Rico’s primary and its potential ramifications. González argues that Latinos in the U.S. will read the symbolism of his absence as political apathy, but complicating the matters is the fact that so few Puerto Rican voters, who can’t vote in the elections, actually cared to go to the polls. Hillary Clinton mobilized her machinery, thereby underscoring how the colonial situation at certain moments gets exploited, and extended, not resolved. Juan González on Democracy Now!.
The Bhutto Puzzle continues…
Luis sent new images to follow the progress of his Bhutto collages seen here last week. I also noticed one site that kindly linked to that post and called these collages “puzzles.” That word is very appropriate. As I was mentioning before, these works ask the viewer to try to follow a complex chain of causality; to try to piece together the true moments of U.S. power and influence. Continue reading
