Phyllis Wattis Theater
151 3rd St
415.357.4130
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Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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Thursday Apr 10, 2008 (6:30pm)
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$10
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- Canceled!
Ever since his breakthrough book City of Quartz — a sustained attack on Los Angeles' social architecture — Mike Davis has remained a controversial and always-vocal figure. Now a UC Irvine professor, Davis has brought his Marxist-environmentalist perspective to bear on ever-shifting American cities like Las Vegas and San Diego, the world's slums, and even a history of the car bomb. His strident tone tends to attract cries of "alarmist" — but with global capitalism pretty much ensuring the world's one-way trip to hell in a hand basket, we can't say Davis didn't warned us.
