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Reading Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia

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One of the mavericks who helped to launch the Critical Mass bike demonstrations, Chris Carlsson is in a unique position to show how outlaw technologies might underscore progressivism. As a teacher, writer, and editor, he examines social movements from the ground up. In his latest book, Nowtopia, he shows how San Francisco's rich culture of utopian hackers, Burning Man crafters, and urban gardeners fits in with a broader rubric of anti-capitalist theory. Given the subject, it makes sense that Carlsson would stage a reading at City Lights — itself a bastion of DIY spirit and radical tinkering.

– Max Goldberg

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