Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Photographs Journey beyond the Stars: Los Angeles and Third Worlds; D.N.Sawhney Sanbhashana: Los Angeles and the Philosophies of Disaster; M.Davis L.A.'s Changing Demographics; M.Baldassare Third World and 'Illegal' in the City of Angels; J.Nevins This Side of Paradise: South Central Los Angeles and Minor Literature; D.N.Sawhney Resistance Art in Los Angeles; P.V.Blum Earth Swans, Conversation-Inside-outside, L.A. is Still the Place, These Hands, and If I Were to Say; J.S.Baca The Occidental Accident; G.C.Spivak Satellites of Sorrow: Los Angeles, Prison, and Circuits of Social Control; C.Parenti The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy; Situationist International Los Angeles as Metaphor: Boiling Frogs, Killer Bees, and Subversive Politics; R.Keil Global L.A.: A Transnational Social Imaginary; N.Klein Deepak on Deepak: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Spiritual Third Worlds, and the City; D.Chopra The Birth of Los Angeles; M.Mayo

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Deepak Narang Sawhney is the editor of "Must We Burn Sade?" and "The Divine Sade".

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DEEPAK NARANG SAWHNEY is Professor of Philosophy at The Union Institute in Los Angeles, California. He is the editor of Must We Burn Sade? and The Divine Sade.

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