- Life is Great! Life is Horrible!… OK, It’s Both!
- From Bicycling to a Broader Public Commons
- Ciudades que echan la mano
- Big City Spring
- Gazing Ironically into the Cul-de-Sac of Radicalism
- Why I Loved the Women’s March, January 21, 2017
- Nature is Trying to Kill Me!
- 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
- When Bicycling Was Cool
- If Bicycling is the Key, What Does it Unlock?
- Si el ciclismo es la clave, ¿qué nos revela?
- Thinking about Post-Capitalism
- Start Talks Now on Work Reduction!
- Mary Brown Has Died But She Lives On in All of Us
- Forget Affordability: In Defense of Cheap Rent!
- On Being Away
- When Punk Mattered: At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City
- Notes From Technotopia: On The Cruelty Of Indifference
- Mayday at the Pigeon Palace
- Ça Suffit? Politics In the Early 21st Century
- History History Everywhere!
- Pigeon Palace Protest May 5 video
- One Trap or Another
- Pigeon Palace, My Home, but for how long?
- Impunity
- A Festival of Empire Wrapped in Technological Hubris
- Tequila!
- Lunch with the Volcano
- Ciudad Guzman: An Unheralded Mexican Gem
- Gentrification and Liberalism, San Francisco and Beyond
- Rage and Radical Patience
- Life During Wartime
- Dog-Whistle Politics in San Francisco
- Liberal San Francisco and the Catholic Church
- Revolutionaries Who Fall Short
- California Water and the Lack Thereof
- Space and Time in Summer 2014
- The Border is Thick
- Solidarity… Forever?
- This is What Democracy Looks Like?!?
- They Want Our Bones
- Public Secrets and Private Agony: Talking About Work!
- Mais Amor: Forum Mundial da Bicicleta III in Curitiba, Brazil
- Nowtopia in Brazil
- Agin the Smaht Cit-ay!
- Liberalism… Still!
- Thoughts on the Gift Economy
- Giftivalve
- Hightailing (and Highlining) it through History in New York
- Life in a Neoliberal Crockpot
- What is Relevance?
- Spook Governments, Networked Movements, Shifting Subjectivities
- Gregory Stuart Williamson
- Cracks, Openings, Uprisings
- Amnesia and History
- Old Patterns Still With Us
- In the Trenches with General Intellect
- Forgetting to Remember
- The Baseball Gods are with the Giants!
- An Anniversary to Remember
- The Switch is On! 20th Anniversary Celebration Has Begun…
- Hurtling Into Autumn; “Rebel Cities”
- Nowtopia Percolating
- Bicicrítica in Madrid
- Touring the Tidy World of Scandinavia
- Spring Cleaning
- World Bike Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Occupying Our Impasse
- Finding the New in the Old
- Getting a Head Start on the “End of the World”!
- The Future Changes its Spots!
- Return of the Repressed
- “Jobs” Don’t Work!
- “Corporate Greed” is Not the Problem!
- 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)
- Thinking About (Growing) Food
- Fraud and Corruption: The DNA of Business
- Carnage and Cynicism
- Hills and Dales of Summer in San Francisco
- Lima at Last!
- Arequipa, Peru
- Across the Altiplano
- Machu Picchu at last
- Inca Trail Part 2: to the Cloud Forest
- Inca Trail Part 1
- Inca Stonemasonry in Cuzco
- Cuzco Carnaval
- Entering Peru
- To Ingapirca and Cuenca
- Salinas de Guaranda: A Nowtopian Town in Ecuador
- Carnaval Warm-up in Guaranda
- Ambato to Guaranda–Fruits of Travel!
- Quito: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- The Springtime of Peoples Redux
- Egypt Stands Up!
- Protest or Celebration? Or Something Deeper Still?
- Anatomy of Decomposition
- The Long Night
- Normalizing Catastrophe: Cancun as Laboratory of the Future
- Birthday at Lake Chapala
- Manzanillo
- Colima, a Lesser Known Mexican Secret!
- 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
- Drought in the Amazon!
- Out in the Streets: Vamos Gigantes!
- Last Tango in Zagarolo!
- Nowtopia Meets Descrescita Felice!
- A Hop Into Switzerland
- Starting from the Sausages
- Bologna
- Ciclomundi
- Siena, A Visible Invisible City!
- Jobs Don’t Work!
- Nature Near and Far
- Critical Mass Goes Deep (into the southern neighborhoods)
- San Francisco Summer Notes
- Everybody’s Work is Equally Important!
- Cycling Utopia in Copenhagen
- The US Social Forum in Detroit
- Conundrums of the Commons
- Making Space Public
- Technology and Impotence
- Seeds of Urban Agriculture Taking Root
- Butterflies and Utopia (again)
- May Day, Red and Green and Immigrant Rights!
- Imagining Utopia
- Eye Candy: Spring Wildflowers
- Not a Dog Person
- Social Democracy and Transitioning
- Monarchs at 10,000 feet!
- Puebleando in Michoacan
- Seeing the Elephant in Copenhagen: A Blind Man’s Account
- Stockholm for walkers and thinkers
- Up and Down in Oslo
- Frontiers Unfettered by Any Frowning Fortress: Nowtopian Buffalo
- Future Shorelines
- New Generation Meets Iconic Bicycle Messenger
- Kafka Mexicana
- 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
- Bike Stencils, BiciMakinas (Pedal-Powered Tools) in Guadalajara
- Biking and Biting by the Bay
- Needed: Climate Change!
- Ruminating on Nowtopia
- Parallel Universes
- Things Are Heating Up!
- Work Worth Doing
- Commons and its Enemies
- At the Edge of Commercialization: The Maker Faire
- History, Natural and Other
- Crisis Talk
- Of Teamsters and Turtles, Plumbers and Progressives, a MayDay rumination
- Springing Through NYC
- A Wee Visit to Scotland!
- Spring Lamb Bonanza!
- Seven Cities in Seven Days!
- Rolling Around Manchester; Climbing to Hebdenstall!
- Liverpudlian Surprises
- England is blooming
- Nowtopia in Bristol
- Cardiff, Wales, a city killing itself?
- Spring Delight: Critical Mass March 09
- Into the 53rd…
- Premonitory Depression Blues
- For the Love of Rain
- It’s Happening in Los Angeles!
- Recapping the World Social Forum
- Bikes in Belem
- First-Ever Amazonian Critical Mass!
- Trade Unionism: Long Past the Peak
- Soggy Socialists”¦ and Everyone Else Too!
- Waterworld
- Crossing the Planet
- The Webs We Weave
- Death and Insecurity
- Jane Martin, a Force of Nature
- When the Kids are United…
- Glimmers of History
- 20 Theses Against Green Capitalism
- The Tortoise vs. the Gangster
- Gone to Sea!
- Contesting Sad and Bad History
- Dawn of Deflation
- Floating, Waiting, Wondering
- Practical Solutions!
- The China Syndrome
- Ruins and stuff
- In a New Saddle
- Battle of Seattle
- How topia…. Now!
- From Redesigning Cities to Industrial Ruins
- Scattered Thoughts from eastern N. America
- Hamming it up in Toronto and Hamilton
- Quack ‘n Track
- Living Well Now
- Eco Mots
- Pot-purring
- KulturKampf or Preparation?
- History Past and Present
- Strange Loops
- A Belated Conclusion to the Tour
- Thank You Corkers! Vancouver Critical Mass, June 2008
- Exploring Vancouver
- Nowtopia vs. Despair in Seattle
- DIY is Bigger Than We Think
- Carfree in Portland
- In the Cascades
- Carfree Portland
- U-gene Oh-ay-sis
- A Bit of Nowtopia at Home
- 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)
- Great Night at Flexi (and beyond)
- Just another tourist in Rome?
- On to Rome
- Nowtopia in Milan
- A Black Turtle Crossed My Path!
- Big Applishness
- Folding Bikes and Falling Phone Booths
- Hurtling around NY
- Nowtopia is for Tortoises!
- Nowtopian moments in Dystopian America
- Layering History
- Dancing in the Streets!
- Fake Numbers and Real Limits
- Still Bicycling!
- Springing Forward
- Wiki World
- In Search of a Public Life
- Hill Help for Bikes!
- My neighborhood
- Nowtopia Rising?
- Cautiously Rising!
- Wasting Away reading about Waste
- New Year, Old Back
- The View from my Bed
- Physical collapses! The Planet and Me!
- Grounding by Rolling
- Arts Ecology
- Precarious Urbanity, Linear History
- Now Playing in New York!
- I’m baaaacckkk!
- I’m baaaacckkk!
- Lost in Migration!
- Migrating
- Tech help?
- Tortured Professionals
- Bees and Bombs
- Home and Away
- Summering
- Blimps, bikes, pipelines, uninsurance
- Streets of Istanbul
- Turkish Multiculturalism
- Touring Istanbul
- Istanbul!
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Romance of the Train
- 48 Hours in Budapest!
- Sachsenhausen and bikelanes
- Berlin, art mecca
- Ghosts of Berlin
- Effective Politics or Feeling Effective
- June 3 and 4 Rostock demonstrations
- June 2 protest against G8
- Journey to Camp Rostock
- Berlin (not beyond… yet)
- UK vacationing III
- UK vacationing II
- UK vacationing
- Climate Change Changes Purpose?
- 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
- April Buzzes
- Tempestuous Cyclists and a Stunning Victory
- Gossips Hit a Nerve
- April Moon
- Watch out for that swinging pendulum!
- Mad Marchness
- Spring is Glorious!
- Magic still happens!
- San Francisco mishmash
- Miltie’s Naturalized Markets
- What does “spiritual” mean anyway?
- Upcoming public appearances
- Drumming at Demonstrations
- Sick of Health!
- Brittle Clarity
- Controversies!
- Timely reading on Time
- New Year’s Potpourri…
- Gettin’ all Noir on ya!
- Gettin’ all Noir on ya!
- UnSilent Night
- Holidaze
- Evolving Politics?
- Outta sight
- Mushrooms
- Orga(ni)smic Communities
- Thanksgiving continuity
- Oceanic Slime
- Living and Dying in the City
- Feeling Freer in a House of Mirrors
- Valuing San Francisco
- October Pleasures
- Food for Words?
- UnAmerican Thoughts
- Madhouse Distractions
- Hamlet in the Hamlet
- Global Head-jimony?
- 30 days, 30 moods
- Bambi, Bolivia and Brainstorming
- Road Blockades
- I like New York!
- Disaster Bicycling
- Mexico Piquetero
- Direct from Mexico City
- Direct from Mexico City
- Police State Theater of the Absurd
- What is ‘Interactive’ anyway?
- What is ‘Interactive’ anyway?
- Wars and Invisible Resistance
- Blinding War
- Midsummer Mass
- CREAM and more
- Of Buried Creeks and Thwarted Plans
- False Gospel of Work
- Snoozing through “News”
- Snoozing through “News”
- Terminations
- Alex Foti interviews me!
- The Yellow Sign of our Irony Problem
- World Cupture and Breakfast
- Solstice Done Right!
- Summer Blues
- Alex Foti interview
- Ghost towns of the Bay Area
- Art of Science
- Comment problems
- Out and About
- The Pulse of Googlism
- Hard Analysis
- Capri
- What Should the Left Propose?
- Cuma and Baia
- Cause and Effect
- Pozzuoli
- Invisible Cities in Plain View
- Cambridge Conference
- May Day 2006
- Promenades, Tours, and urban walking
- The Scale of Self-management
- Local and Global
- Missing but Active!
- Refusal and Spirit
- Politics Out of History
- Science talk
- On the Road (again?)
- The Passing of Giants
- San Francisco–live if you want it
- Critical Mass Feb 06–Why We Ride and Do’s and Don’ts!
- Critical Mass Feb 06–Why We Ride and Do’s and Don’ts!
- Where Did Science Come From? Where is it Going?
- Deindividuation, Mobs, Disease and Drugs
- Remembering History
- Why We Fight History
- Philippines and San Francisco
- Anger and its malcontents
- Real History in The Other Campaign
- The Heart of Politics
- The Time it Takes
- Aging Bike Rides, Healing Brain
- Talking and Making News
- Parody and Paranoia
- History circling through Chile
- Precarious Life
- Transparency as Subversion: Open Source Feelings
- Cabal-iscious!
- Nuclear Attack on Iran?
- Affinity vs. Hegemony
- Brain Balm
- Demodernization, the ultimate threat
- Planning Unintended Consequences
- Engineering Public Safety
- A Broken Heart
- Memory and Responsibility
- Temperature is falling
- Public Infrastructure: Health and Beyond
- Monster at the Door, Gardens on the Roof
- Halloween and Dia de los Muertos
- Sports as History
- Fibreculture, Precarity, Organized Networks
- When Copyright is Wrong
- The Rush of History
- A Bicycling City
- The Scheme(s)
- Critical Mass is Thirteen!
- Twin Peaks and a Phat Farm
- Leftism in the Streets and a Memoir
- Multitude
- Beginning of the End?
- The Impossible Job
- Power and Violence
- Invisible Revolution in Plain View
- Avian flu and thinking Networkly
- Natural and Unnatural Envelopment
- Seeing through technology
- The Machinery of Everyday Life?
- Peace and War
- May Days to Come
- Not Again (or Again AND Again!)
- Penguins Do the Darndest Things!
- Crashing into World Wars
- Al-Qaida, Batman and the New Vanguardism
- Labor History right now
- Change-alulah!
- Otherizing in Northern California
- Critical Mass May 2005
- Communities, old and new
- Thanks Billmon!!
- Anarchism…. when?
- “Following Sean” and “Mouth to Mouth”
- “Following Sean” and “Mouth to Mouth”
- Happy May Day!
- SF Int’l Film Festival!
- SF Int’l Film Festival!
- BIcycle Traffic
- Critical Mass April 05
- Sex Pioneers
- Iraq and Mexico
- Caliban and the Witch
- Blogosphere notes
- The Pacific Edge
- A Public Week
- The Most Gullible Boy in the World!
- Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
- Fortress of Solitude
- Upcoming public appearances
- “Taking” self-management seriously
- “Taking” self-management seriously
- Feb 05 Critical Mass and “Self-Management”
- Feb 05 Critical Mass and “Self-Management”
- Notes on a Mediocrity-Free Zone
- Winners!
- All Sped Up!
- ’68
- Bolivians in El Alto persist
- One Vast Winter Count
- Death Squad Summer Camp 2005!
- Haiti
- Network Culture
- New Years Critical Mass; The Sorrow and The Pity
- Old tools
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- Emergency Sex After Liberalism
- Against Spirituality
- We coulda had SUMPthin’!
- Inside and Outside
- PreCog: Chainworkers and Brainworkers
- I Heart Culture War!
- Concerning spines, or the lack thereof
- November 2004
- July 1916
- Oil and money
- Readings this week and beyond!
- Riverbend
- The Links
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- DÃa de los Muertos
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- Democracy… sort of
- Halloween Critical Mass 04
- Guantánamo good for selling cars?
- Hard-working Idleness
- The Factory
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- Blogging tech… sooooo easy!
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