Chris Carlsson

(415) 608-9035 (cell)

Writer • editor • producer • indexing and proofreading
graphic & multimedia design • The Nowtopian (MY BLOG!)

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Nowtopia • Processed World • Shaping San Francisco • Critical Mass • CounterPULSE

Nowtopia Release Party Reading podcast

May 7, Columbia University Teachers College Symposium podcast

April 23, 2008 Against The Grain interview (1 hour) podcast

article on Nowtopia and future San Francisco in SF Bay Guardian
+ online Q&A with Erick Lyle

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How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and
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From City Lights Foundation

The Political Edge

Edited by Chris Carlsson

City Lights Foundation / ISBN 1-93140-405-4 / $17.95
Reflections by 25 San Francisco activists and writers on elections, war, urban hell and transformational politics.

In the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of an underdog campaign to elect Green Party Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco, The Political Edge analyzes emergent political energies, where they came from, and where they're going. Rarely have contemporary radicals joined forces with cultural rebels and neighborhood activists in an effort to change almost everything about the governance of a city. Cultural and political trends erupt in San Francisco, a city that thrives on dissent and new ideas. With wit and cogency, this book reveals the new dynamics that will reshape urban politics nationwide.

Contributors include D.S. Black, Iain Boal, Steven Bodzin, Chris Carlsson, Mona Caron, Hugh d'Andrade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bianca Henry, Keith Hennessy, Erick Lyle, Quintin Mecke, Alejandro Murguía, Annalee Newitz, Joel Pomerantz, Rick Prelinger, Michael Rauner, David Rosen, Marlena Sonn, Alli Starr, Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Michelle Tea, James Tracy, Michael Med-O Whitson, & Josh Wilson.

From Full Enjoyment Books
After The Deluge

by Chris Carlsson

Available from Full Enjoyment Books / ISBN 0-926664-07-7
$13.00 postpaid from Full Enjoyment Books, 2844 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
distributed by AK Press and Last Gasp

A teenage arsonist threatens a partially submerged mid-22nd century San Francisco. As a Public Investigator "tryout" seeks evidence across the utopian city full of canals and veloways, political and social conflicts erupt. When there is no such thing as property, what is crime, and how does a utopian society protect itself from bad behavior? Should scientists be as free as artists to create? What is a "free market" for work without and money and commodities?

"A provocative and speculative journey to the Bay Area of 2157... more an imaginary treasure map than utopia-by-the-numbers blueprint... This book might show much more in common with Starhawk's Fifth Sacred Thing if Carlsson weren't so precisely and persistently allergic to the kind of earth religion Starhawk promotes. After The Deluge is for atheists and agnostics and activists who don't need the goddess to get their revolutionary groove on."
—Anu Bonobo, Fifth Estate Magazine, Fall 2005