Field Notes
The Rent is Too Damn High
By Nathan Eisenberg and Richard HunsingerTenants in a large apartment complex in downtown San Francisco individually petition their management company to fulfill much-needed maintenance requests, in one case collecting enough documentation of code violations and legal research to fill a literal binder.
Corona Crisis Governmentality
By Bini AdamczakHypochondria or recklessness? Irresponsibility or paranoia? Daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic in big parts of the world, like in Germany, fluctuates between these two poles. For the more or less foreseeable future.
Back to School
What’s the Use of a University?
By Samuel Feldblum and John SchmidtThe history of the University of California over the last half-century has been written through protest. Student movements and labor actions alike erupt iteratively in response to changes in the UC’s structure. Amid one longer struggle, each generation fights its own particular battles.
Back to School
Against the Wall
By Hovey BrockWorkers don’t sacrifice their time and energy on a whim to agitate for better working conditions. As is happening to so many other workers today, the adjuncts are fighting because their backs are against the wall.
Back to School
Save CUNY
By Carol LangHow was the New York ruling class going to retake control of City College? The fiscal crisis that devastated New York City in 1975 provided the perfect occasion. The CUNY administration took back the promises it made in 1969.
My Rosenberg COVID-19 Mask
By Eric Gabriel LehmanOne pleasant Sunday morning about a month ago I waited in a long line for a packet of masks the New York City Department of Health was giving out. The line stretched from one end of Manhattan’s vast Alfred E. Smith NYCHA housing project along St. James Place, as if a store were hiring.
The Spiral
By Phil A. NeelTime turns in on itself like a crashing wave. We often find ourselves adrift in the gyre, lost in the same places with the same events transpiring around us and altered only by the most gentle of inversions.
