Ten years ago, we started Tropics of Meta. The world of 8,000-word essays about Detroit wartime housing would never be the same.
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
Alex Sayf Cummings is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University, whose work deals with technology, law, public policy, and the political culture of the modern United States. Alex's writing has appeared in Salon, the Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, Al Jazeera, and Southern Cultures, among other publications, and the book Democracy of Sound was published by Oxford University Press in 2013 (paperback, 2017). Alex can be followed on Twitter at @akbarjenkins.
In his dying years, Tony Judt reminded us that remembering the 20th century just as a catalog of horrors flattens what actually happened.
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Georgia State’s Kell Hall was a mystifying yet charmingly awful symbol of the university’s long ramp from the swamps to the stars.
