Contr’un

[ezcol_2third] Apparently, i’m not the only one who can’t make sense of the whole war narrative. Tom Shanker has an interesting piece in the New York Times today, called “All Quiet on the Home Front, […]

[ezcol_2third] My library is nearly unpacked, after the move, and i’ve been sifting through material, trying to get a handle on things, so i can proceed in a more or less orderly manner. Because i […]

[ezcol_2third] Just a follow-up to yesterday’s post: it seems there is a kind of basic contradiction at the heart of most government sponsored civil defense efforts. Such programs are necessary because, when push comes to […]

[ezcol_2third] Since the London bombings, the question has been raised again – just what sort of response should anarchists have to acts of terrorism? Actual responses have been a little weird sometimes, among the weirder […]

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: There’s a remark in a later post—about the time I moved west, I think—about how the next reshuffling of priorities would leave some projects by the wayside, without anyone really noticing, since […]

But if this is a potentially fascinating work of architecture, it is, sadly, fascinating in the way that Albert Speer’s architectural nightmares were fascinating: as expressions of the values of a particular time and era. […]