Category: Development
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The Space Isn’t Fixed with Flows
Read more: The Space Isn’t Fixed with FlowsBoth Harvey and Castells discuss the relationship between space and socioeconomics. Harvey approaches the question through the lens of Marx’s spatial fix, examining the potential of using imperialism as a means to resolve systemic failures in capitalism. Castells considers the question by adding time to the mix of space and production, and analyzes how technology…
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Impish Thoughts
Read more: Impish ThoughtsSo, I watched the Superbowl ad from yesterday which opens with apocalypse, in the conventional Biblical sense. Horrors are being visited on the world, the order of things is turned upside down: dogs are walking people; God is Black. This ad was listed in the “funny” section. The punchline is that all this mayhem is…