June 2009
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A dog's death, a human outpouring →
baltimoresun.com
is baltimore more affected by the murder of a dog than roughly 300 of its citizens per. year? quote captures a prevalent notion around here — that victims of fatal violence, particularly black youth, are culpable for their own murders.
“At the risk of sounding uncaring, I think probably the general attitude is the people who are killing each other every day, every hour — people make that choice…People are just so tired of people in the city making those choices to be in gangs, making those choices to kill each other. This animal had no choice.”
world map of social networks →
vincos.it
technology and the compression of space:
social networking sites shrinking (and in some cases effacing whole parts of) the world.
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“Capital, above all, is never alone in shaping the historical geography of the landscape and is certainly not the only author or authority…[Yet, we] must…never lose sight of the hard contours of capitalism’s ‘inner contradictions’ and ‘laws of motion’ no matter how blurry or softened history and human agency have made them.”
—Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
