One Piece at a Time
Johnny Cash’s song is about how he makes his own dream Cadillac by smuggling out all the parts from the factory over twenty years. It’s essentially about stealing from work but that’s not how it’s meant to be understood.
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We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated by mechanical reproduction, is reversed. Here, artisanal labour, the handmade, is in fact employed to mimic the aesthetic of mechanical reproduction.
Free School
.. the putting back into social use of empty property should be rewarded. That is to follow market logic as it provides housing, resources and social facilities at no cost to the taxpayer. Instead it is the target of legislation to criminalise it.
Rambler in the Berlin Unité
When the social constituency changes so does the range of communal activities and associations. This is not an Unité that engages the debate between modernity and nature through community but offers a different dialogue
Altieri on agroecology
It’s like a stool that has three legs. One that is socially just, one that is economically viable, and one that is ecologically safe. And when one of those legs lags, then the stool falls down. In other words, it’s all or nothing. Agroecology thus demands the total transformation..
Frontline street
The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today with electronic surveillance, byelaws, virtual tracking. The exercise of political agency constantly faces new dimensions of space