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Section Introduction III

January 8, 2012 By Rebecca Zorach Leave a Comment Filed Under: 68/08, Peripheral Vision Tagged With: #history, #section

“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.”—Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962 “And the lonely voice of youth cries ‘What is truth?’” —Johnny Cash One of the more astonishing things about the opening line […]

Section Introduction II

January 8, 2012 By Daniel Tucker Leave a Comment Filed Under: 68/08, Peripheral Vision Tagged With: #section

What is the relationship between then and now? This is the basic question of any effort to research, produce, uncover, perform or re-invent history. In this section of 68/08 you will be introduced to people who are attempting to deal with the connection between one moment and another through a variety of tactics: re-enactments, re-readings, […]

Section Introduction

January 8, 2012 By Aaron Sarver Leave a Comment Filed Under: 68/08, im/migrations Tagged With: #section

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Some histories remain hidden from us, while we can’t escape others. In this section of ‘68/’08 we attempt to uncover neglected histories and untold stories of Chicago from 1968. Some events such as the Democratic National Convention and accompanying police riots in Grant Park have been told and retold, so we see no need to […]

Section III

January 8, 2012 By AREA Leave a Comment Filed Under: im/migrations, Peripheral Vision Tagged With: #section

Discussions and experiments about alternative approaches to policy, politics and discourse on immigration and migration. In this section we offer reports, profiles, histories, and reflections on places, movements, personal histories, and sociopolitical positions outside the center of population, the main currents of attention, or conventional experience. This may be another way of saying that Chicago […]

Section II

January 8, 2012 By AREA Leave a Comment Filed Under: im/migrations, Peripheral Vision Tagged With: #section

This section describes various kinds of interaction with “America” as a place, an idea, and an identity. The articles and images in this section track movement between center and periphery. They also analyze broader trends and systems. They map significant sites. They show how inequality in the Chicago region expresses itself spatially. Who and what […]

Section I

January 8, 2012 By AREA Leave a Comment Filed Under: im/migrations, Peripheral Vision Tagged With: #section

This section interrogates the concept of the ‘border’ and asks how borders compel or dissuade migration. Inhabitants call it “The Calumet” or even just “The Region.” The Region—comprising the far Southeast Side of Chicago, parts of the South Suburbs, and parts of Northwest Indiana—is connected by ecology and economy, refusing to respect the boundaries of […]

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