Titlebook: Unmasking L.A.; Third Worlds and the Deepak Narang Sawhney (Fellow of Philosophy, Inter Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature

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Journey Beyond the Stars, to city of the future, from Iowa’s seacoast to city of the apocalypse, Los Angeles’s financial, cultural, and digital preeminence appear unchallenged in the changing worlds of globalization. Los Angeles, whose arid landscape was the first in the world to be showered in the incandescent beauty of el

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Five Poems,just for me, to heal the pain and betrayal of a woman who guzzled me dry down to the last tongue-licking drop of my soul and left me my feelings a stack of dirty dishes on the drain board my banquet of dreams half-eaten hardening left-overs, I left for black crows to glean in Albuquerque fields and

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Mapping the Unfindable,y, I visited the Potsdammer Platz in Berlin, a vast petting zoo for the global economy, larger than all of downtown Los Angeles. Memories of World War II and the Berlin Wall are dwarfed by the parachute entryway to the Sony Media Center. Potsdammer Platz is like five Century Cities laid end to end,

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,Third World and “Illegal” in the City of Angels,ise of police power within the United States.” Such operations, stated the report, could take place “in response to civil disorder and terrorism.” According to sociologist Timothy Dunn, one possible scenario was entitled “A U.S. City in Revolt” and envisioned “an armed uprising based in Los Angeles,

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Resistance Art in Los Angeles,rtainment, and culture. The multifaceted accomplishments of its vast multiracial and multiethnic populations vie with the city’s more negative reputation, often well deserved, for kitsch and superficiality. To millions of outsiders (and thousands of residents as well), Hollywood’s preference for app

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Los Angeles as Metaphor,nt with the springtime smells of a civic society with brooms cleaning up the debris, a gang truce, smiling politicians, and talk of everyone “getting along.” Crises often show their presence explosively rather than in evolution. Some might argue that during the lofty days of the 1980s the temperatur