<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm new to the list, independent scholar (at the moment) in berkeley, ca working on various issues of technoculture, post-critical philosophy (see ref below), aesthetics, social thought. I will not be going to the upcoming conference, but i hope there is some attention paid there to urbanism, poverty, access, and "who" gets "situated" and who doesn't, at all, relative to inclusion. the numbers below show, i think , that the "over-developed world" represents a very narrow bandwidth of humanity, and has _already_ been re-situated by the "under-developed world." [quoted terms from Gilroy, see below] what is the significance of that to any concept of future directions? <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>the following could be replaced by any number of other equally compelling works, i suggest these as a point of reference for my point above.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, Verso: 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>At present, 3.2 billion people are congregated in towns and cities. Their numbers are expected to grow to 10 billion in the middle of the century. [that's near-future]</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mumbai: 10-12 million squatters and tenements; Mexico City, Dhaka - 9/10 million each; Lagos, Cairo, Karachi, Kinshasa-Brazzaville, Sao Paolo, Shanghai, Dehli - 7 million each; 4 million each, Cuidad Nezahualcoyotl, Chalco, Iztaplapa; 2 million in Caracas; 1.5 million in Baghdad; 1.3 in Gaza; 160 million in India; 190 million in China; 70 percent of the urban populations live in slums in Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Sudan.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[numbers from Davis, quoted in "Slumland" review, Jan Breman, in current issue of New Left Review - see below]</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>for comparative net- growth, see:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/census.html">http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/census.html</A></DIV><DIV>particularly</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.conceptualdevices.com/ENG/Human%20World/Internet_Users_Animation.html">http://www.conceptualdevices.com/ENG/Human%20World/Internet_Users_Animation.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and for a potential model of resistance via the net see:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/index.html">http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/index.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>action:</DIV><DIV>Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself, Fordham UP, 2005</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>addresses moral philosophy in terms of "acting, doing, within a contemporary social frame."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>contexts:</DIV><DIV>Paul Gilroy, <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">Between camps : nations, cultures and the allure of race / </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"> Routledge, 2004</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Paul Gilroy, <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">Against race : imagining political culture beyond the color line: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>titles are sufficient: posses problems of the "situated" in terms of the long standing debates between essentialism, social construction; opposes spivak's <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>concept of "strategic essentialism" and poses instead a "strategic universalism."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">New Left Review, 40, July/August 2006 </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">particularly cohesive issue, well worth reading in its entirety for the resonances between articles, but in particular, Gadi Algazi, "Offshore Zionism," R. Taggart Murphy, "East Asia's Dollars," and Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Curve of US Power."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.1px; "> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">begins to re-situate the situation of globalism and power discourse, addresses, indirectly, many of the issues saskia sassen raised at ISEA for those of you </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.1px; "> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">heard her speak: the importance of "global finance" and its immense "creative" capacity</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">methods:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;">David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2005 {downloadable at: <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><A href="http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html}">http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html}</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>important and imaginative contribution to viability of anarchism as political strategy based on direct action network model, advocates, not surprisingly, <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>completely dumping the situation of centralized state, acting not against but elsewhere, _causing_ it to wither away.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>David Hoy, Critical Resistance: From poststructuralism to post-critique, MIT, 2005</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>brings crystalline clarity to the ethical pros and cons of key figures: Foucault, Derrida, Bourdieu, Zizek, Leclaou/Mouffe, Butler, etc, makes case for ethical <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>efficacity of genealogical deconstruction (Derrida's term from Aporias). It's a superb primer/teaching tool as well as contribution to this discourse.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.1px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>mark bartlett, phd</DIV><DIV>berkeley, ca 94705</DIV></BODY></HTML>