My ultimate vision for a better world is:

Small, numerous turbulent city-states governed by direct democracy.

Books that have made me me:

Bourdieu's Distinction

Don Herzog's Happy Slaves: A Critique of Consent Theory

Philip Mirowski's Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science

Thomas Sugrue's The Origins of the Urban Crisis

David Noble's American By Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

Elbaum / Lazonick's The Decline of the British Economy

Doyne Dawson's Cities of the Gods: Communist Utopias in Greek Thought

Robert Fitch's The Assassination of New York

Bruce Carruthers' City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution

Neil Fligstein's The Transformation of Corporate Control

William Roy's Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America

About you: Frankly, if you can stand reading this ad without fleeing in horror, you're interesting to me. You should be wicked funny and smart. But kind enough to overlook my many mistakes. You might be interested in art, architecture, literature or politics but also be able to tolerate my apparently infinite affinity for schmaltz.