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Feb 14, 2023 · Planted in the 1890s, near the time of Stanford University’s founding, it began as ornamentation; a pleasant compliment to life. Today, its vines creep along the eaves with impunity, wiggling into shingles and crevices with invasive intent. Twice a year it blooms, curtaining our patio with bursts of periwinkle petals that descend from the vines.
May 11, 2023 · Palo Alto, California, a hub for Silicon Valley. Photograph: Aerial Archives/Alamy. The book, named one of the most anticipated of the year by the New York Times, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles ...
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Apr 17, 2023 · The book begins before Palo Alto has even been awarded its name, painting a sweeping view of the special violence and velocity of settler colonialism on the West Coast, and how it worked in tandem ...
Feb 14, 2023 · To make his eviscerating critique of capitalism, Harris cherry-picks the history of California in general and Palo Alto in particular. He finds plenty of ugly stories, from the Chinese Exclusion ...
Feb 14, 2023 · In his new book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World, writer Malcolm Harris positions the foundation of Silicon Valley as a small domino that unleashes the true final domino, the destruction of the world. It’s a bold claim that, after reading the argument laid out over the book’s 700-plus pages, is not entirely ...
Mar 6, 2024 · The “woke” in Palo Alto changed the name of Jordon Hifh school a few years ago because he was involved in eugenics. How about changing the name of Stanford itself, considering the University’s involvement in torture, war and so many other anti-societal activities?
Feb 9, 2023 · Doing for Palo Alto — population 70,000 — what Mike Davis’s classic “City of Quartz” did for Los Angeles, Harris reconsiders 200 years of history that many in the town would rather ...
