Ever wondered if pirates were capitalists? For years, historians had them at the vanguard of class revolution, the quintessential socialists, and now an economists puts them at the forefront of the market revolution. Regardless, this is fun and revealing reading, A history of pirates : The New Yorker.
Eyal Weizman offers and incisive portrait of David Harvey and his view of the city in this essay that broadly thinks about the implications of Harvey’s work for understanding cities and offers a novel conception of having a right to the city. Roundtable: Research Architecture | David Harvey–The Right to the City.
