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