Like most children of French “Soixante Huitards” – or “Sixty Eighters” – I have always been nostalgic for the ‘60s. Even though I was born...
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Universities historically have been some of the most important sites of contestation and revolt across the globe. In the 1960s, student protests erupted across universities…
When the stock market crashed in October 1929, a decade long economic downfall, known as the Great Depression, ensued in the United States and quickly…
A few weeks ago, as New Yorkers (well, tourists) rang in the New Year at Times Square, an unusual thing happened: no one got arrested….
“Le Midi”, in southeastern France,is where my grandfather grew up and where he later joined the Résistance as a young man.
Over the past few months, I have been learning to build a house alongside a new friend, Torsten Ottesjö, architect, lumberjack and pedagogue in carpentry…
This past year has been an important exercise in patience for me; a year of learning acceptance and letting time do its thing. A year…
Since French President François Hollande was elected last May, taxes, or “les impôts”, have been the only thing on France’s mind. During his campaign, Hollande…
I have recently been commissioned to edit a book and sought some guidance from a dear friend of mine whom I once upon a time…
One of the more beautiful graphic novels I’ve read is Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (2009). The story follows Asterios, a self-centered “paper architect” (his designs…
Just south of London’s financial district, on the other side of the Thames River stands the Heygate estate, a mammoth public housing block that once…
When the verdict on the Rodney King trial was announced on April 29, 1992, I was 6 years old. My family lived in a neighborhood…
These reflections have been nourished by Angela Davis’s totally badass autobiography
Last Saturday, some 3,000 thousand people gathered around Saint Paul’s cathedral in London to “Occupy the London Stock Exchange” (or LSX). Two days later, the…
Over the past several weeks, residents of the Ethelred Estate – a 900-unit housing estate situated just south of the Thames river in the London…
Over the past few years, there has been an incredible rise in popularity of the far-right in several European countries, including Belgium, Austria, Denmark and…
Flickr-Fibonacci Blue As an increasing number of noxious anti-immigrant laws are adopted in the US; as Europe debates border closures; and as the effective elimination…
From the moment I step out of my front door in the morning to the moment I come home at night, around 300 surveillance cameras…
Gary, Celine and Gilda on the question of spontaneity vs preparation. LISTEN to the Conversation http://dl.dropbox.com/u/461934/spontaneity%20v%20preparation.mp3 READ the Transcript: Gary: This is long running, at...
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What if school was full of things that your were dying to learn? Where students are teachers and teachers are students?