Sit around and talk: Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

Wednesday October 26, 2011, 7:30 pm
501 Schermerhorn
1190 Amsterdam Avenue

Tomorrow at Columbia, academics will be talking uptown about occupants downtown. I'll be attending and reporting back. Ironically enough, the event is RSVP. Far from apathy, Columbia students have questioned their part in the ows movement, for their university largely benefits from Wall Street. On the other end, OWS has us, educators and scholars, reflect on our practices and the end of our work. Occupants are shaking things all the way up the ivory tower.

my my metrocard

Jalopnik, the blog covering car culture owned by Gawker, is running stories on New York City's subway system. Keeping the myth of the Big Apple's mobile underbelly alive, tonight they reveal "14 of the juiciest and gruesome things we didn't know about running a New York City subway train."
A first-year MTA subway conductor has been anonymously answering questions about New York City's underground on reddit. If only they could also make intelligible service change announcements on weekends and late nights...

Rocking Mobility

Black Flag's Henry Rollins and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo on the future of mobility studies... literally. For more on rocking mobility, check the T2M Summer School Collaborative blog this weekend.