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Like any number of urban freeways, the I-980 and I-880 are lines of containment. They mark out the zones and boundaries of economic apartheid, making West Oakland into an island of poverty, a police zone, boxed in on all sides. A freeway, in this sense, is merely one of the most visible forms of the lines of force that cut up our cities and, in turn, our lives, that butcher them according to the logics of race and class, money and property…

The New York Times described it at the time as depicting an "imaginary labyrinth 650 miles square." It is "'situated' between the Mississippi and the Rockies and consists of many 2 1/2-mile-square structures, each divided into an 'Over-building' and an 'Under-building' and each containing nine arenas."

The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid. It initiates a kind of collaborative Meccano to which everybody can contribute parts, components and structures

While last summer's strike at Tower Hamlets College is often portrayed as a victory by unions, two of its organisers, B&R, remain critical, and place ESOL at the butt end of the government's chauvinist austerity

"Intellectuals in a Social Movement" Brian Holmes talk at UCSD lecture series, “Public Culture in the Visual Sphere”